| Session | Start | Finish | Notes & Highlights |
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| 20061231 | 8 Marpenoth 1385, morning | 11 Marpenoth 1385, evening | 8th: Alynna goes to Menaria to research the disease and after lengthy searching finds a journal with a cure, Alynna returns home with it in late evening to translate it into Chondathan, Elron makes copies and Storm brings all the Chosen and a few other mages, Alynna gives them all copies of the cure recipe and enlists them to help make enough, Alynna begins her own work on brewing a cure, Alax and the army turn northward onto the mountain trail, Alax prays to Helm and briefly to Selūne that evening; 9th: Near lunchtime a hundred giants and two hundred goblins attack Alax's force from both sides, Alax rallies the troops and leads them to a great victory killing all hundred giants and 150 goblins, the remaining 50 goblins flee, at late evening Alynna rounds up the first batch of cure (enough for 1,200 doses less one that Alynna took) and takes it to Alustriel; 10th: Alax reaches the mines to discover them collapsed and all enemies fled northward, Alax turns his troops home given that the weather's turning, Alynna takes the second batch of cure to Alustriel and sees they are doing much better, Selūne briefly visits Jullian after bedtime to tell her Alax is well and homeward bound; 11th: a mostly uneventful day for all until Damus and the Ironchest clan caravan comes to Hullack town, Damus makes a poor impression on Jullian by mostly ignoring her (except for her breasts) in preference to his ale, Alynna delivers the last batch of cure to Alustriel and learns Sue had fainted, Alynna examines Sue and finds she has miscarried because of the disease, Alynna and Alustriel talk about Tallman men. |
| 20061230 | 6 Marpenoth 1385 | 8 Marpenoth 1385, morning | 6th: After Jaleen is finished healing, they return to Hullack town, Astra Morgan and Raymond take Jaleen to Trent's new house then go to the dressmaker, Astra and Morgan buy two fine robes, Jullian receives a letter from Alustriel calling for a quarantine of Silverymoon, Jullian has Morgan scry to discover that Sue has a disease, the rest of the day goes well; 7th: Jullian, Morgan, Astra Raymond and Kalan go to a housewarming party at Trent and Jaleen's house that turns into an orgy (although Astra resists before giving in), before the orgy starts Trent identifies the broken tiles from the last battle with the giants as healing spell tiles, Jullian and Morgan bathe and return home but Astra and spouses stay the night, an drow archer is captured before he could shoot at Alax; 8th: Alax has a near miss from a drow archer's arrow but the rangers flanking the army get him, Alax talks with them briefly before resuming the march, Morgan scrys on Sue and finds she is worse and Alustriel has the disease as well, Morgan asks Alynna to come, Alynna sees and has a magical conversation with Alustriel to learn it's a magical enhancement of the Black Death, Alynna immediately begins researching a cure. |
| 20061229 | 6 Marpenoth 1385 | 6 Marpenoth 1385 | 6th: Selūne appears in the middle of the night to wake Alax up, she blesses his sword for the battle then attempts to seduce him, Alax declines the seduction so Selūne wakes Jullian to ask her opinion, Jullian tells Alax to do what Selūne wants so he does after which Selūne tells him she carries his daughter, Alax and wives sleep until a guard wakes Alax, Alax has William help with his armor, once the troops assemble Alax leads them out of the keep and eastward along the road, the Dragons report seeing smoke to the southeast, Jullian has Morgan scry and find a group of drow burning Jaleen at the stake, Jullian alerts Alynna, Alynna brings Astra and Raymond, Alynna Astra Raymond Jullian and Morgan go to rescue Jaleen and do so after killing four drow, Alynna begins healing Jaleen from near death. |
| 20061225 | 5 Marpenoth 1385 | 5 Marpenoth 1385 | 5th: Alax arranges to have two war wizards accompany the army, Alax arranges with Axil to send rangers out, Alax arranges with Horthon Scheel to have priests accompany the army, Roderic spends time with Jewel, Trent tells Astra and Morgan that Candlekeep is expelling him because he gave knowledge to them without demanding payment, Morgan engineers lovemaking between herself and Astra and between Jullian and Trent, Astra and Morgan notice that they get much closer mentally when they make love, Trent arranges to move to Hullack since he needs a new home, Jullian sells him the house formerly owned by the Sharran agent, Jullian spends the rest of the day with the children, William exoects to be the boss when Alax is gone and is getting full of himself, Alax has dinner with wives and family then heads to bed early, Alax and wives make love, Astra and spouses make love. |
| 20061223 | 4 Marpenoth 1385 | 5 Marpenoth 1385 | 4th: Jullian and Morgan talk before Jullian goes to the temple, Alax continues planning for the march but decides the dwarves wont arrive in time to participate, Astra goes to Morgan's tower and they talk about Jullian before getting to work, Alax discovers that the war wizards are working on other projects after using their scrying spells, Alax decides to use the group on the march as well as the soldiers and orcs, Alax and Edmund get into a fierce argument over the presence of the orcs, Edmund refuses to go and Alax kicks him out of the group, Jullian prays and talks to Tulli about her nightmares but Tully is little help other than to have her sleep at the temple for the night, Durin is busy with last minute work from the Dragons, Alynna finds out about the march preparations and remembers Willis told her of the Sharran spy in the keep, Alynna goes to spy on the woman through the night; 5th: Alynna observes the Sharran pray at length before going to sleep, Jullian has the nightmare again then wakes up, Tulli tries to comfort her but Jullian decides she'd rather die than be driven mad by the nightmares, Tulli gives Jullian something to help her sleep, Tulli sends for Alynna, Elron gets Alynna to come, Alynna goes to talk to Tulli and they decide the Sharran Alynna was watching is responsible for Jullian's dreams, Alynna kills the Sharran while she sleeps, Tulli sends Jullian home when she wakes up for a mandatory 4-day rest, Morgan mentions having Astra help seduce Jullian which prompts Alax to have a private discussion with them about Obarskyr blood and adultery, Morgan promises to try to resist her blood and keep it discreet if she can't, Jullian Morgan and Astra spend the day in Morgan's tower, Alax spends the day in final preparations, Edmund works on his bowmaking, Alax learns that one of the dragons put a laxative in the orc's food and that Elisa is giving the orcs medications for it. [Alax and group get 7,000XP for dozen giants during session 20061217.] |
| 20061222 | 2 Marpenoth 1385 | 4 Marpenoth 1385 | 2nd: Jullian wakes up after a nightmare about serving Shar, Sue left during the night to aid pox victims in Silverymoon and Alax isn't happy that she left with no word, Damin gives Jullian a breatplate made of a blue-glowing metal called moonsteel sold to him by a gnome, Jullian's holy symbol is somehow coated with acid and Tully helps Jullian clean it, Alax gives orders to prepare for a march against the drow and their minions, Astra spends the day with Morgan at her tower, Morgan tries to seduce her but Astra refuses, Astra discusses Morgan with Kalan and Raymond and they say they wouldn't be bothered about Morgan's desire, Alynna finishes learning Beltyn's Burning Blood; 3rd: Jullian had nightmares again, a war wizard tells Alax a band of orcs with drow and goblin prisoners is only 30 minutes from town, Alax goes out to meet them with a patrol and finds they're friendly orcs from Gamash who wish to join the fight against the drow, Alax welcomes them into the keep, Alax continues planning for the march, Alynna goes to deal with Sullev, Alynna is knocked unconscioys and assaulted by Sullev but when she wakes up she kills him with her new spell, Alax continues his planning and Astra spends the day with Morgan in Morgan's tower; 4th: Jullian has nightmares again but worse than before. |
| 20061217 | 1 Marpenoth 1385 | 1 Marpenoth 1385 | 1st: Jullian disbelieves Sellia's story, Sellia tries to convince Jullian she should serve Shar and Morgan already does, Jullian orders her out, Alax learns the box containing the books can likely only be opened by one descended from the blood of Annaria, Jullian tells Alax of what Sellia told her despite her doubts, Alax has Morgan scry and finds there are indeed giants there, Alax assembles the group to go after the giants, Alax and group defeats a dozen giants then make sure there are no more in the area before returning home, Astra and Morgan identify the two magic items they found then talk, Jullian gets Willis to agree to sculpt her for the Suzail temple and they work late and have dinner together, Alax reports to Sir Brian, Alax has a war wizard scry on the force he sent north two days prior and finds them getting defeated, Alax has four war wizards take him and four knights to the scene but arrive only in time to rescue one Purple Dragon after slaying all the giants and winter wolves, Alax is late getting home, Morgan pampers Alax when he gets home. |
| 20061216 | Higharvestide 1385 | 1 Marpenoth 1385 | Higharvestide: Dragons come to arrest Morgan for killing Sasha Obarskyr, Alax talks with Izak then the prosecutor and magistrate, Alax talks to Morgan and finds out that something broke the head of Sasha's statue and she only transmuted her back to flesh to experiment on her, Izak tells Elron about Morgan and Elron uses direct means to get the prosecutor and magistrate to lay off and free Morgan, Alax takes Morgan home, at the festival a visiting mage challenges Astra to a death-duel (not a mage duel) for daring to call herself a daughter of Mystra and kills Kalan and several bystanders before Astra disintegrates him, Trent resurrects Kalan, a Sharite named Sellia introduces herself and tells Astra about the mage but disavows any involvement on her part, Sue tells Jullian that the Suzail temple wants to have a statue of Jullian, Jullian goes to confront Sellia but she is unarmed and expresses only a desire to enjoy the festival so Jullian leaves her alone, Jullian and Sue go to the Suzail temple to discuss the statue with the High Priestess there, Alax finds Rashan at the festival and asks her to attempt to heal Jewel's throat, Alax looks around Morgan's tower and finds a metal box full of books on necromancy and the shadow weave, Rashan casts a miracle to heal Jewel, Jullian participates in a ceremony at the temple during the evening, at the end of the day Alax and Morgan talk about the box of books, Morgan claims to have never been able to open the box, Alax forbids Morgan from pursuing necromancy and she agrees, 1st Marpenoth: Morgan begins designing a golem, Alax takes the box of evil books to Horthon Scheel to be destroyed, Sellia tells Jullian of a gathering of giants just south of Thunderstone but Jullian doubts the story. |
| 20061209 | 30 Eleint 1385 | Higharvestide 1385 | 30th: Alynna goes to Willis and uses her silver fire to begin regenerating his skin, Astra Raymond Kalan Trent and Jalea have a private Sharessan ceremony together, during the night a young woman named Yarin (a friend of Willis' from the Suzail thieves guild) sneaks in to Willis' house and talks with Alynna without knowing who she is, Yarin tells she killed all who did this to Willis except the leader Sullev, Yarin reveals that one of the cooks in the Dragon messhall (a little brunette) is a Sharite spy, Willis takes a highly addictive narcotic for the pain of his flaying, Morgan is kept awake by Astra's activity and scryes to discover the Sharessan ceremony, Morgan wants to join in but Jullian chickens out and refuses; Higharvestide: Alax finds out through Emy that Sue is pregnant but gone on a mission, Renee comes home and tells Alax about a battle between the rangers and goblins, Alax is annoyed that no word was sent to him when it started, Willis finishes healing, Alynna returns home to tell Elron Storm and Jenni what happened, Ūmaryl begins manifesting sorcerous talent and is punished for using it to hurt Naladar and Alynna, Elron suggests Astra teach Ūmaryl to control her talent but Alynna suggests Rumsfeld, Elron asks Astra to check Rumsfeld out to see if he's suitable, Alax goes to visit Jewel and learns she is healing but can no longer talk, Alynna goes to Laspeera to get a spell suitable for punishing Sullev, Roderic and wives go to spend time with Jewel. |
| 20061208 | 30 Eleint 1385 | 30 Eleint 1385 | 30th: Astra Morgan Jullian and Trent are taken to Dweomerheart to talk with Mystra Selūne Sune and Sharess, they are told Shar will attack the family soon and only a powder given to Jullian will stop the bleeding of the wounds, they are sent back home, Jullian tells Sue all about what they were told, they return to the wedding party, later one an assassin disguised as a guard attacks and severely wounds Jewel before Astra kills him, Jullian uses the powder to save Jewel's life but her wounds cannot be magically healed, Alynna takes Jewel home to the palace, the wedding party breaks up, Jaleen is cooking and suggests a private Sharessan ceremony with Astra and spouses, Astra agrees only after getting Raymond and Kalan's agreement, as Alax carries Carmen home after the wedding Renee is headed out, Renee tells Alax that Axil has an idea on flushing the goblins out, Astra quickly teleports to Alynna to tell her and Izak what happened to Willis then returns home before the ceremony begins. |
| 20061203 | 27 Eleint 1385 | 30 Eleint 1385 | 27th: In the afternoon Alax Durin and Damus go to meet the hundred or so dwarves coming in with the last caravan to Suzail, Alax and Durin talk with the dwarven refugees before leaving them in Damus' charge. 28th: Jaleen gives Astra and Raymond a followup exam and discovers Raymond is herniated in his privates, Jaleen performs a ceremony to heal him, Jaleen and Astra visit Morgan then Jaleen checks on Alax, Alax lets himself be only basically examined, the rest of the day goes well, Astra Raymond and Kalan are intimate that night; 29th: Roderic and family arrive in anticipation of the wedding, Roderic pointedly questions Carmen and upsets her for a bit, Sue and Jullian reassure her, a goblin is brought to Alax with a story about hill giants raiding the logging camp, Alax imprisons the goblin but has Axil check the story out, Axil returns to report the logging camp has been utterly wiped out and they appeared to come down the path from the mining camp in the mountains, Alax has war wizards scry the mining camp and discovers it overridden with hill giants taking direction from drow, Alax orders the goblin interrogated and discovers the drow are using other races as proxies against Hullack, Alax kills the goblin then puts the entire town on alert; 30th: Frost giants are discovered gathering at the far north of the forest so Alax dispatches a hundred infantry two dozen archers and a couple of war wizards, Jullian has difficulty talking Carmen into wearing her wedding dress but finally manages, the guests to the wedding assemble, when Willis refuses to leave his house Astra discovers that he has been flayed or trying to leave the thieves guild, at Willis' insistence Astra goes to attend the wedding, Carmen is married into Alax's family, at the party afterward idle conversation between Sue and Jullian cause Sue to probe into the root of Jullian's submissiveness which his her self-hatred of Jurral, Sue relieves Jullian's of priestly duties until she works out her problem, Jullian is hurt and goes home, Morgan asks why but Jullian won't say, Morgan finds out from Sue then comforts Jullian, Sue comes home and apologizes to Jullian for being a bitch and gives the excuse that she's pregnant. |
| 20061202 | 27 Eleint 1385 | 27 Eleint 1385 | 27th: Astra has a nightmare about being made a goddess before waking up in the morning, Astra goes to Mystra to ask for advice and Mystra tells her that Helm may test her soon for ascencion so she needs to get rid of the weave energy inside her as soon as possible, Astra returns home and discusses this with Raymond and Kalan and they decide to get Trent and Jalea to help, Astra sends Kalan to ask them secretly to come and make it look like they left town, Jaleen begins a lengthy ceremony on Astra with Kalan's participation, Trent joins in and drives Astra past the point of orgasm and exhaustion until her soul touches Mystra's and all her weave energy returns to Mystra, through the bond Morgan goes wild as well, Willis bring a rare and priceless artifact from Illefarn to Alax's wives as a wedding present, Carmen has lunch with Alax, Jaleen cooks dinner for Astra's household while she and Kalan and Trent rest, Astra and family and guests have an enjoyable evening. [Astra gets +1 to Wisdom due to ceremony.] |
| 20061126 | 26 Eleint 1385, morning | 26 Eleint 1385, end of day | 26th: Trent and Jaleen take the gathered priestesses and mages and Alax to lunch, during lunch Astra and Moran vanish, Shar took them both and attempts to sway Morgan to her by demonstrating Astra's weakness (her fear of sex/men/violation), Astra is defiant and bolsters Morgan's will, Shar has shadow creatures attempt to violate Astra but they are driven off and Mystra transports them back home, the entire inn sees Astra naked, Morgan takes her off to get clothing, Alynna tells the others the ceremony can't wait five days because Shar is working through the shadow weave in Morgan, Astra and Morgan talk while alone and Morgan gives in to the shadow weave within her, Alynna and the others return, Morgan teleports out and tries to summon a demon but Alynna stops her and teleports her back, Morgan attacks all of them with a fireball before being restrained, Morgan is taken to the Selūnite temple and preparations are begun, Alax brings a detachment of Purple Dragons to the temple to guard the ceremony, Jaleen distracts Morgan from trying to escape with public sex done on her, at sundown the ceremony begins and the Shadow Weave is driven from Morgan, after the ceremony they all have dinner at Alax's house and discuss Astra's remaining problems, almost the entire family thinks the solution is for Astra to overcome her fear by being with other men, the family presses and Astra gets angry, Raymond suggests that Jaleen teach him how to cope with Astra's problem, Astra questions the need, Raymond leaves the gathering, Astra is angry at her family and leaves looking for Raymond, the family decides they've pushed Astra enough, Astra finds Raymond at the temple praying, Raymond says Mystra has instructed him to return to the order but Astra asks him to stay and he does. |
| 20061125 | 26 Eleint 1385, morning | 26 Eleint 1385, morning | 26th: Mystra sends help to Astra and Morgan in the form of a Trent (a son of Sharess who is a wizard/cleric of Mystra) and Jaleen (a sorceress/cleric of Sharess), Raymond knows Trent and Jaleen from his studies & training, Trent examines Astra and Raymond while Jaleen examines Kalan, they conclude that Astra is harming them with her intense activity but if Astra doesn't have some outlet the weave energy in her will harm her, Astra objects to their suggestion that she take extra partners as an additional outlet, Trent tells Astra of his own researches into Thunderholme and a band of dwarves that might still have a runestone and of his readings about ultimate magi, Trent reveals that Astra has already hurt Raymond, Astra is remorseful about this, Astra and Raymond talk, Morgan comes to see why Astra is sad and Astra tells her of Trent and Jaleen, Astra and Morgan talk for a bit, Trent examines Morgan, Jaleen suggests that a Selūnite purification ritual also including priestesses of Mystra Sune and Sharess will remove the shadow weave energy from Morgan, They go to the keep to talk with Sue and Jullian, Morgan goes to Alax for sex while Astra Trent and Jaleen talk with Sue and Jullian, Trent examines Alax's wives to make sure they are healty and untainted by Morgan's shadow weave energy. Morgan doesn't stop until Alax is raw, Morgan then Alax join the rest, Jaleen examines Alax and heals him, Jullian lets slip that there is a cause to Astra's reluctance with sex, Astra reacts angrily and walks out, Alynna tells Jaleen the cause of Astra's problem, Jaleen goes to talk with Astra and apologize, Jaleen takes Alynna and Astra to Candlekeep (where she and Trent normally live) to research her problem and find an alternative Suneite ritual not requiring sex but still requiring intimacy, Astra doesn't like it either, Jaleen gives up and returns them to the keep, Trent tests an idea (draining the energy from Astra by having her hold drained magical items), it seems to work but Astra's hand is badly burned, Trent takes the wand out to test it and causes a large explosion, Alynna goes out to heal him while Jullian and Jaleen treat other wounded bystanders, Astra reluctantly decides she might have to take Trent and Jaleen's advice because she's dangerous as she is, Alynna summons Elisa to advise on the Suneite ritual, Elisa knows of it and clarifies a few points, Elisa agrees to perform the ceremony on Raymond and Astra once per day for a tenday or so. |
| 20061119 | 25 Eleint 1385 | 26 Eleint 1385, morning | 25th: Morgan joins Astra this morning and tells Astra about Willis' statues, Astra and Morgan go to see the statues and Astra is embarassed, Willis doesn't help her embarassment by saying he's shown the nude sculptures to others and making tasteless jokes, Morgan and Astra get dresses for Carmen's wedding to Alax then go to the temple to pray for a bit before returning to Astra's house, Durin and Damus discuss his repair job of Jullian's armor, Alynna Storm and Jenni make a shopping trip to Neverwinter, they learn that Alynna's 'twin' Lynnara is apparently working in a high-class brothel and a number of people mis-recognize Alynna, Alynna Storm and Jenni are accosted by thugs but Alynna scares them off after they nearly kill Jenni, Alynna heals Jenni and takes them back home, letters get to Roderic and family about Alax's wedding and the events leading to it, Morgan and Astra are both extremely energetic in their respective beds; 26th: Kalan gets a magical dildo from Alynna to help Astra out, Alynna and Alysan talk, Kalan fails a test by ignoring Alynna's instructions and Alynna tells her to expect extra workload. |
| 20061118 | 24 Eleint 1385 | 24 Eleint 1385 | 24th: Fashia and Arangor come to Alynna alone and tell her that Willis and Sasha are fighting, Alynna scrys and sees Willis carrying a carpet roll through the palace, Alax is told Willis killed a Purple Dragon, Alax views the body then goes after Willis, Alynna teleports to Willis and finds out what's going on, Alynna convinces Willis to not kill Sasha and that she'll take care of it, Alynna exchanges unpleasant words with Sasha, Astra and Morgan get Laspeera to help them with research in the royal library, Alynna tries to get Astra and Morgan to come to Earth with her but Morgan refuses so Alynna settles for turning Sasha to stone, Alax finds Willis and talks a bit with him, Alynna stores the stoned Sasha in Morgan's tower, Alynna finds Storm and tells her what's happened, Storm suggests handing Sasha over to server her sister Alassra, Alynna and Storm visit Willis and tells him they will watch his children anytime he needs to be gone, Jullian helps Willis clear Sasha's things out of the house and helps Willis remove the shrine to Mask and Willis gives Jullian Sasha's rare perfumes and a sculpted bust of Alynna, Sue is intrigued with the bust and after getting Willis' permission Sue and Jullian go see the other sculptures - all nudes of women Willis knows, at dinner Morgan tells Alax and wives of her and Astra's research and Jullian tells them of what she found of Sasha's, Morgan spends the evening working in her tower, Renee comes to Alynna wanting help finding out if Jandice can father children but Alynna no longer has the equipment to help. |
| 20061112 | 23 Eleint 1385 | 24 Eleint 1385 | 23rd: Astra and Morgan finish talk with Mystra and return home, the group splits before dinner, William tells Alax that Fashia told him of a purple dragon spending nights with Sasha while Willis was gone, Alax's wives and Carmen discuss wedding plans and family and Morgan tells them what Mystra told her; 24th: Alax starts a five-day rotation among lionars of the keep to serve as his aide, Carmen starts as training officer, Durin goes to Suzail to find Damus, Damus tells of the destruction of Clan Ironchest at the hands of giants and that the remaining handful of the clan are on their way here and should arrive soon, Damus has the idea of reclaiming Thunderholme for a new home, Durin takes Damus to Jewel and tells her of the plight of his clan and the plan, Jewel agrees to help, Jewel confirms the clan is close according to a report she heard, Durin takes Damus to talk with Alax, Alax agrees to lend the help of his group to the task, Durin takes Damus to the inn for a drink then to home to meet Gwella and have lunch, Alax goes to tell the group of a new mission, Alax insists that Edmund come then asks Astra to research Thunderholme with Morgan, Astra goes to get Morgan and they go to start their research after more odd behavior from Morgan, Alax speaks to Sasha of her affair and recommends she come clean with Willis. |
| 20061111 | 22 Eleint 1385 | 23 Eleint 1385 | 22nd: Jullian and Carmen talk, Carmen speaks of her family and of a dwarven master smith named Damus Ironchest, at dinner Alax asks Carmen to marry him and she agrees, Alax tells her she's transferred from aide to training officer as of day after tomorrow, Astra and Morgan eat considerably more than ususal, the family tells Carmen the secret of Morgan's parentage, Alax and Carmen discuss military history, Jullian and Carmen talk more while bathing, Carmen joins Alax and wives in bed for fun; 23rd: Alax and wives and Carmen visit Lord Roland Emmarask and get his approval for the wedding, they go shopping to get Carmen a ring and some dresses before returning home, Carmen takes Jullian's armor to Durin and tells him of Damus, Alax's group gathers for treasure distribution, Willis' son Arangor has a foul language problem, Willis takes Arangor to Alynna for the afternoon and she uses cantrips to wash his mouth with soap, the group divides up the treasure from the Sessrendale quest, Morgan starts blurting out disturbing statements, Astra takes Morgan to see Mystra, Mystra explains the odd tiredness and appetite and Morgan's blurting are due to absorbing energy when defeating the elder brain and that Astra absorbed weave energy while Morgan absorbed shadow weave energy and that it will pass in time, Mystra tells them of other consequences to follow the defeating of the elder brain, Mystra gives Astra a book to help her learn to combine sorcerous and wizardly powers. [Alax,Jullian,Morgan,Astra,Raymond,Willis,Renee get 5,052.34gp for Sessrendale adventure.] |
| 20061105 | 22 Eleint 1385 | 22 Eleint 1385 | 22nd: The group finds a lab where a balor was once summoned, talk to a ghost who gives them helpful advice through her diary, the group defeats two flesh golems, four ghouls, two ghasts, four mohrgs, and a lich, the group returns home, Sir Brian comes to Alax and advises him to marry Carmen, Alax reluctantly agrees. [Alax,Jullian,Morgan,Astra,Raymond,Willis,Renee get 7,342XP for Sessrendale adventure.] |
| 20061104 | 19 Eleint 1385 | 22 Eleint 1385 | 19th: Before sleeping Morgan animates a skeleton to guard the camp, Jullian sleeps separately from Morgan and Alax; 20th: At Jullian's insistance Morgan destroys the skeleton, the group encounters and destroys a few more patrols of skeletons, at the end of the day Morgan refrains from animating another skeleton and Jullian puts her beroll back with them, Jullian speaks to Alax about Carmen but Alax doesn't want to hear about it, Sue has dinner with Carmen at the inn; 21st: the group finds an old keep at the end of the day and camps near it, Sue has dinner with Carmen at the inn, Gareth goes to Malcom's house to play chess and talk to him about Alax's situation; 22nd: Willis and Renee defeat two ghouls before group enters keep, group enters keep and defeats 6 animated suits of armor. |
| 20061029 | 18 Eleint 1385 | 20 Eleint 1385 | 18th: Alax has lunch with his wives, Morgan's jealousy seems to be gone, Sue brings Carmen to lunch, Carmen tells Alax that Elisa is working in the tavern, Alax takes two guards to get Elisa out of the tavern, Elisa was working just as a healer and not as a coinlass so Alax sets her up in the keep, Henric hears about Elisa and goes to get her but meets Alax and Elisa on the way back, Elisa refers an injured Dragon to Jullian and Jullian performs it, Jullian and Elisa talk, Elisa goes out with a war wizard that evening, Sue writes a letter to Roderic informing him about Carmen and the curse, Alax and wives learn more about Carmen during dinner, Morgan reveals to her family she's studying necromancy, Alax and wives enjoy each other before sleeping; 19th: Alax finds Elisa shacked up with the war wizard in the barracks he gave her to do healing work in, the war wizard teleports Alax and group to a spot on the other side of the Thunder Peaks, Alax and group head towards the place Carmen's ancestor got cursed, Henric sees Elisa return home smelling of sex after spending all night out, Jullian handles twenty skeletons the group encounters, Alax and group camp at the end of the day, Sue takes Carmen and the children to the inn for dinner and talks with Henric; 20th: Sue talks to Alynna and reveals that Carmen is related to Lord Roland Emmarask, Sue goes to discuss the matter with Heather, Gareth scrys on the two of them. |
| 20061028 | 17 Eleint 1385 | 18 Eleint 1385 | 17th: Sue and Jullian talk with Carmen and invite her to stay in the house while Alax and group are gone, Morgan continues to display jealousy, Elisa intends to leave home because Henric interfered with her attempt to help Sue until Henric and Tess talk her out of it, Edmund and Kat talk about Renee's tracking of a mind-flayer, Edmund goes out to gather wood in the near forest, Alax makes the rounds to ask the group to gather for the mission, Edmund finds Renee in the forest with a trapped mind-flayer as a prisoner and they talk, a Purple Dragon patrol shows up to take the mind-flayer to the Black Dragons, Sue and Jullian talk, Jullian talks to Morgan in the tower but Morgan is evasive about discussing her jealousy and secretive about what arcane project she's working on, Jullian asks Alynna to check on Morgan so Alynna scrys but takes no action now, Adeara wakes up for dinner but still shows memory problems, Edmund decides to stay close to Adeara rather than go on Alax's planned expedition 18th: Morgan is still evasive about her current project and says she'll stay behind and let Astra go without her if she doesn't finish in time, Sue and Jullian go discuss Morgan with Astra, Astra visits Morgan and learns she's working on necromancy, Morgan reveals she was planning on turning Carmen into a ghoul but was reconsidering, Astra talks Morgan out of it and gets her to see tht her jealousy was pointless, Morgan and Astra talk with Jullian then Alynna briefly, Edmund tells Alax he won't be going, Alax gets Renee to replace Edmund on the expedition. |
| 20061022 | 16 Eleint 1385 | 17 Eleint 1385 | 16th: Carmen tells Alax she carries his child and Alax tells her to take time to think about what to do, Alax and wives discuss the Carmen situation over lunch, Jullian Sue and Morgan talk after lunch and spend time with children, Adeara wakes up and Edmund learns she's missing much of her recent memory, Alax and wives have fun evening, Astra and spouses have fun evening; 17th: After waking up Morgan attempts to go up to roof and Sue attempts to pack and leave, Jullian believes it's Carmen's curse at work again, Sue thinks the solution is for Jullian to seduce Carmen but Jullian is hesitant, Elisa is agreed on as an alternative seductress, they go to ask Elisa, Elisa is willing but Henric kills the idea once he learns of it. |
| 20061021 | 14 Eleint 1385 | 16 Eleint 1385 | 14th: Alax finishes conversation with Kat, has pleasant day, during the night Alax has dream about sex with his female aide; 15th: Brian tanner wakes up Alax in his office, Alax learns that his dream wasn't a dream and that he did have sex with his aide Lionar Carmen Barslow, Tanner is disappointed in Alax and walks out, Alax summons a Helmite priest Sue and Tanner back to his office, under a truth spell it is revealed that Carmen has an ancestral curse that grants her desires in a twisted way and that Alax was truthful as far as what he recalled (although the priest Watcher Gathor Bleth tried to say Alax wasn't being honest at first), after questioning the night guards Alax learns that he didn't walk to his office so he had to have been teleported by the curse, the group with accompanying drow and freed slaves reaches the surface near the end of the day a short distance from Olivia Kalmer's (Jenni's grandmother) home, the drow leave and head back to their own home, the group goes to Olivia's home to spend the evening; 16th: The group returns to Hullack at mid-morning, Jullian makes arrangements for the human slaves to return home, Sue informs Morgan and Jullian of the incident between Alax and Carmen, Sue mentions that the keep guards don't want her to leave the keep as of late, Sue Jullian and Morgan take Carmen to see Alynna, Alynna learns that Carmen did get pregnant with Alax's child, Morgan breaks her hand hitting Carmen, Alynna goes with Sue Morgan and Jullian to check on Adeara and find her head wound severely infected, Alynna cleans it out then heals her with silver fire. |
| 20061015 | 11 Eleint 1385 | 14 Eleint 1385 | 11th: Alynna and Elron teleport out to be with Storm while she rests, they learn all of the Seven Sisters are alive but exhausted and resting at Roderic's house, remainder of group continues leading freed slaves out via a side passage; 12th: Storm wakes Alynna up, Alynna and Elron have breakfast with all Seven Sisters in Roderic's house, Syluné is back to life, A presences that was "Mystra yet not Mystra" touched the sisters while they were held captive and Alynna theorizes it was some property of the joint power of Astra and Morgan, the Seven Sisters return to their respective homes, Alynna restores the spell bond between her and Storm, Alynna Storm and Elron visit Masoner's Bridge then Storm's farm in Shadowdale before returning home to see the children, Sue returns home to Alax; 13th: Alax learns the group is all right from Kalan, Gareth and Malcom have their chess game; 14th: Morgan is in a good mood, Adeara gives Tanner a report (that should have went to Alax) about a fight against illithids in the forest and that Renee is still out tracking one, Alax talks with Adeara then Kat. [Alynna,Elron,Astra,Morgan,Raymond,Edmund,Willis,Jullian get 4,000XP for their journey to and from Mielikki's Refuge, the journey into the underdark, getting through the evil drow city, feeeing the slaves from the dark dwarves, and destroying the elder brain and lifting the dark shroud over Faerūn during sessions 20060930-20061014.] |
| 20061014 | 7 Eleint 1385 | 11 Eleint 1385 | 7th: The friendly drow suggest going to a mountain pass cave to get to the elder brain and seeking psi-blocking helmets from dark dwarves but Alynna and group place faith in Mystra's advice and press on, group reaches cave and camps with Purple Dragon outpost at cave entrance; 8th: Alynna and group enter cave, encounter and pass through first friendly drow outpost then arrive at the friendly drow outpost at the passage fork to camp for the night; 9th: The drow garrison offers some drow to lead them through the hostile drow city masquerading as slaves and slave-traffickers, the group reluctantly accepts the masquerade, the good drow get them through the city to the other side before being stopped, they hostile drow guard demands Jullian's favors as the price for letting them through, the good drow hand Jullian over to them then are allowed out, Jullian siezes an opportunity to lay the guard out cold then escape before the gate can be closed and takes a crossbow bolt in the butt in the process, the group moves on to camp a distance away from the drow city; 10th: Alynna and group with their drow companions make a detour to attack a dard dwarven slave caravan to take their psi-shield helmets and in the process free 40 human and drow slaves, the group camps near the illithid city at the end of the day; 11th: Alynna and group enter the illithid city, they find the elder brain, Astra and Morgan interfere with the spell causing it to end and the elder brain to be killed, the group leaves the city amid the ensuing chaos, Alax and the surface world are treated to bright sunlight as the dark shroud is broken. [Alynna's Group + good drow escort get 1000gp total.] |
| 20061008 | 4 Eleint 1385 | 7 Eleint 1385 | 4th: Alax learns that a bad forest fire has broken out in the southwest corner of the forest where the circle of fire intersects it, Alax orders the evacuation of the civilian population of Masoner's Bridge to Hullack Town, Selūne sends Sue to Immersea to help Chauntea, Alax strengthens the patrols of the forest in response to a significant increase in drow scouting activity; 5th: Patricia comes to visit Dauntinghorn House with news her fiance was killed gruesomely a couple days past, Edmund leads the group on an 11-hour hike to reach the edge of Hullack Forest, Alax learns the forest fire put itself out somehow with little damage done to the forest; 6th: Elron is a bit mean in waking Morgan and Jullian up, Edmund leads the group on into the forest for a 12-hour hike, Elron apologizes to Jullian at the end of the day, Alynna is then short with Morgan, Alax gets a report that a Purple Dragon of the keep has gone missing so Alax has a search started; 7th: Alynna and group encounter a 25-strong patrol of friendly drow that tell them mind flayers attacked one of their outposts. |
| 20061007 | 2 Eleint 1385 | 4 Eleint 1385 | 2nd: Alax tells Jewel he'll get crops from the colonies to help with the expected famine, Hector continues sailing westward since the weather warmed a bit; 3rd: Alynna and group have breakfast at Roderic's house, Mystra tells them the path to the elder brain starts with the cave near Hullack town, the group sets out on the return trip, Edmund leads them on a hard 13-hour day; 4th: Edmund leads the group on another 13-hour march during which Jullian takes a painful fall, Edmund stops at where the mountains fade into foothills, Hector and ship arrive in Suzail at the end of the day, Hector reports to the commodore then arranges leave rotations for his crew before going home to his family. |
| 20061001 | 1 Eleint 1385 | 2 Eleint 1385 | 1st: Alax and Sue finish their talk, Hector worries about whether he can get the ship back to port before the ports freeze and considers going to Dawngleam instead; 2nd: To everyone's surprise it's warmer today, the group's travel is long and hard but uneventful and they arrive at the refuge, after a brief rest at Roderic's hosue Mystra and Mielikki personally talk to the group and tell them it's an illithid elder brain responsible for the darkness, the illithid has used the Weave and Shadow Weave together to throw a cloak over Faerūn to allow his kind to walk the land and have taken the Seven Sisters as hostages, Mystra Mielikki and Chauntea (at least) are using all their power to prevent the world from freezing and thus are nearly mortal themselves against any other threat, Mystra informs them that Azuth has opened portals to the elemental plane of fire in most of the land between Arabel and Hullack to try to add warmth to the world, Alax learns the fields to the east of Hullack are burning in the morning and goes to Jewel to tell her, Jewel says that rumors are circulating that she and Alax are having an affair, Jewel tells Alax the burning is a circle that encompasses all the farms between Arabel and Hullack (which is a circle nearly 70 miles in diameter). |
| 20060930 | 27 Eleasias 1385 | 1 Eleint 1385 | 27th: At dinner in Elron's house Storm suddenly vanishes in a flash of light, Alynna scrys to find Storm all right but floating in a pillar of light, Astra and Morgan get a feeling from Mystra of a need to see Alynna so they go to see Alynna, Edmund gets a vision from Mielikki telling him to take Alynna Elron and friends to the refuge so he goes to Alynna's house, after gearing up Edmund Willis Alynna Elron Astra Raymond Jullian and Morgan set out into the night and hike for four hours before stopping, the cloudcover clears to reveal a sky filled with points of silver and purple flashes of light; 28th: The sun sheds no light after sunrise, Alynna scrys on a number of places and learns that all of Faerūn remains dark, the group hikes for 8 hours, Alax consults with High Watcher Sheel and with Sue but neither of them know the cause of the darkness, it begins to get colder; 29th: After 12 hours of hiking the group reaches the 'official' northern edge of Hullack forest and the start of the hill country, after conferring with Sir Brian Sue and Horthon Scheel Alax has the Purple Dragons gather firewood and hunt and gather food to prepare, Alysan reopens the tavern; 30th: The group crosses the hill country to reach the banks of the Immerflow in 11 hours and spends another hour walking along the bank, the group bathes after camping, in Hullack the people begin demanding answers and Alax talks to them to say there are none as of yet, the high temperature is down to 50; 1st Eleint: The group meets a ranger from the refuge who was sent out to look for them, the high temperature is down to 40, Sue and Alax talk about the situation. |
| 20060923 | 26 Eleasias 1385 | 27 Eleasias 1385 | 26th: Kat is not happy about the possibility of Edmund being sent back to Cormanthor; 27th: Gareth sees the list of all the raped women (including Kandra) in the Suzail Weekly newspaper, Gareth complains to Alax who knew nothing about it, then to the publisher, then to Jewel about it, other nobles do the same, Hector finds out that his wife was raped when a war wizard takes a copy of the newspaper to the ship, Kat tries to get Alax to send someone else to Cormanthor next time but he refuses, Edmund spends the day gathering bowmaking wood, Jullian decides to accompany the next day's cavalry patrol, Kat doesn't return home for dinner, Edmund tries to find her but gets Alynna's help when he sees she's gone into deep forest, Alynna teleports them to Kat and learns she was headed to Cormanthor herself, after an argument Alynna takes them home, Kat refuses to return with Edmund but spends the night at the inn getting drunk, Edmund discusses the matter with his other wives. |
| 20060917 | 24 Eleasias 1385 | 26 Eleasias 1385 | 24th: Henric's tavern is full that evening; 25th: Kandra sends a message to Alax asking when the execution will be and Alax replies highsun today, Kandra arrives early to witness it, Alax returns her locket, the sole surviving rapist is hung with Kandra, Alysan and the tavern coinlasses witnessing, Alax gives orders to dispose of the bodies, Morgan resumes working with Astra at her house, Astra shows off her new helpful bookholder spell to Morgan, Alax returns his focus to the drow problem which so far remains a minor problem, Edmund has been scouting the drow since leaving the high mountains on the 19th and passing through the foothills on the 20th, Edmund has found the locations of a number of cities the drow are building, he has located several outposts of their forces and sees thems sending their scouts through trees to Hullack, this night he sees a young moon-elven woman tortured to death then risen as undead, Edmund investigates a building the woman was brought from and finds more moon-elf prisoners, with some help from Mielikki and his father he raids the prison and frees the elves, Mielikki takes Edmund back home where he is welcomed by his family; 26th: Edmund reports to Alax and Sir Brian what he found and saw, Alax chooses to make no changes to their deployments, Edmund returns home and spends the day with family. [Edmund gets 1,000XP for feeeing the moon elves from the drow this session.] |
| 20060916 | 23 Eleasias 1385 | 24 Eleasias 1385 | 23rd: After a successful day everyone goes to bed; 24th: Alax is awakened to learn that thugs have attacked Walth's tavern and that the tavern was robbed and the women were raped, Alax gets Jullian and Jandice up to check it out, Walth is dead, Alax looks over the tavern while Jullian heals Alysan and the coinlasses, Alynna also tends to them then tells Storm what happened, Storm helps too, Alysan decides to close the tavern for several days, Jandice leads a patrol of Dragon cavalry after the thugs and Alax follows shortly thereafter to catch up with them, Renee tries to go with them but Alax and Jandice send her back, after several hours they find all seven thugs camped, Alax leads an attack against them that kills six and captures one at the expense of five Dragons killed, Alax has them brought back and the survivor interrogated mentally to reveal a cache of stolen goods and who all they raped and robbed, Alysan verifies that the seven men were the ones, Alax goes to tell Jewel of the event, Jewel sends word to the Dauntinghorns of this and that Kandra's stolen possession will be returned. |
| 20060910 | 15 Eleasias 1385 | 23 Eleasias 1385 | 15th: Edmund enters the high mountains; 16th: Amber Wyvernspur visits Alax then gives Renee a tiger cub as a wedding present, Amber gives some help with the wedding planning, Alax sends word he wants the group to go back down into the Underdark on the 18th; 18th: The group returns to the Underdark through the sunken graveyard entrance, they find that friendly drow are guarding the cavern where they took out the drow the last time and will send warning of the hostile drow attack, the group returns to the surface; 20th: Battlemaster and Lord Aris are executed by drawing and quartering, Jullian gets some benches she had ordered from Masoner's Bridge and Thunderstone; 22nd: Jullian gets more benches (enough for the wedding), an extra battalion of Purple Dragon infantry arrive to provide security for the wedding, Jullian and the ornrion commanding the infantry have an argument over the location of the wedding that Jullian wins, nobles begin arriving early and taking rooms at Henric's inn (causing a fair bit of crowding); 23rd: The wedding and party afterwards goes off without a hitch, most of the nobles of Suzail are there for it making it the biggest party in quite some time. [Willis, Jandice, Astra, Morgan, Raymond, Jullian get 1,000XP for the ghouls and drow on session 20060827.] |
| 20060909 | 15 Eleasias 1385 | 16 Eleasias 1385 | 15th: The increasing number of wedding guests forces a change in venue from Renee's picked spot in the forest into town, Ice visits Alax and reveals that she is the assassin that Mr. 'A' hired, Ice gives Alax a potion that simulates death as part of a plan to flush Mr. 'A' out, Alax takes the potion and word spreads of his death, Ice tells Alax's wives the plan and gives Jullian the antidote to the poison, word spreads that Alax is dead, Ice visits Alynna and tells that she killed Alax (but not that it's a staged killing as a ploy) and Alynna is angered and orders her to get out, Tanner asks Alynna for help in dealing with Ice once she's found, a few hours later Lord Aris (brother of the battlemaster) comes to 'give his condolences' to the Tallman widows but his words are a thinly veiled attempt to get access or even control of the house wealth and the widow's beds, Ice returns to reveal Lord Aris is the one who paid her to kill Alax, Lord Aris is arrested and carried away, word is spread of Alax's death only being a ruse and Ice's aid in flushing out Aris, Astra begins making scrolls of her new spell; 16th: Elisa talks with Jullian, Gareth learns that Kandra was attacked and raped recently and advises her to have Alynna check on her, Kandra goes to Alynna and Alynna checks her out. |
| 20060903 | 13 Eleasias 1385 | 15 Eleasias 1385 | 13th: Alynna punishes Willis by having Callia use her telepathy to experience the assaults of three women: Alynna, a Suzail barkeep and Taera herself, Willis' experience of the three events makes him remorseful, Taera is satisfied with the justice done; 14th: Willis sends letters of apology out and intends to hang himself until Alynna talks him out of it, Alax talks once more to Taera before she leaves and returns home, Astra successfully finishes researching her Helpful Bookholder spell, Edmund enters the high mountains of the Thunder Peaks, Astra is very horny that evening and that cascades to Morgan and spouses; 15th: Tess sends Henric and the boys to Suzail with a large order for supplies for the wedding, Alax sends a message to Masoner's Bridge asking the status of the patrol sent to ambush the assassin on the 8th, later in the day Alax gets a reply stating the entire patrol is dead, Alax and Morgan teleport to Masoners bridge to learn more detail and learn that a single female - apparently the assassin - took out the entire patrol about four days ago but then her tracks were lost in Masoner's Bridge, Alax and Morgan return home, Morgan wants to isolate Alax to a single room but he refuses, Morgan seeks support from Jullian and Sue but Jullian advises that Alax won't change his mind, Renee's wedding grows large as the Cormaerils invite other noble families. |
| 20060902 | 12 Eleasias 1385 | 13 Eleasias 1385 | 12th: Jandice reports to Alax of the underground battle, Alax sends the group back to retrieve Willis, Astra casts Mass Fly for the first time to get the group there the quickest, they find Willis has taken a drow female scout prisoner and had abused her then left her to die, Jullian heals her then they take the prisoner back home, the group arrives after dark, Alax hears what was done to the drow, Alynna and Storm hear something and come to find out more and are shocked to learn what Willis did; 13th: A war wizard interrogates the drow scout and reports to Alax that she was not an enemy scout but from the city of Eilistraee followers, Alax has the drow brought before him to talk directly and gives her food, Alax takes the drow (named Taera) to Elron Alynna and Storm to tell the full story, Alynna decides on a punishment for Willis and spends the afternoon arranging it, Alynna speaks to Callia for her telepathic services then finds another woman victim willing to share the experience. |
| 20060827 | 10 Eleasias 1385 | 12 Eleasias 1385 | 10th: The remainder of the evening is an enjoyable family time, Alax doubles the house guard shifts, Alynna has disturbing dreams during the night; 11th: Wedding planning continues in Hullack but Alax has security concerns with the spot in the middle of the forest Renee picked, Jandice reports that he found an old elven graveyard that has been dug up and desecreated which is likely to be the source of the undead attack the previous evening, Alax decides to send the group to investigate it and discusses it with the family over lunch, Mystra comes to tell them that the matter of Kiaransalee's direct intervention has been settled, most of the family returns to their respective homes, the group prepares for the mission; 12th: the group (Jullian Astra Morgan Raymond Willis Jandice) heads out to investigate the graveyeard, they go underground and deal with a group of ghouls before finding a cavern where a hundred drow were assembling, Astra and Morgan's fireballs took out all but 18 of the drow but the remaining 18 were unharmed, the group flees back to the surface, Willis stays behind to watch the cave entrance while the rest of the group returns to Hullack Keep to report to Alax. |
| 20060826 | 9 Eleasias 1385 | 10 Eleasias 1385 | 9th: Alax has Axil send rangers in the other three quadrants of the forest to scout for drow and send one ranger to Cormanthor to scout there, Axil initially tells Kat to scout Cormanthor but Edmund talks him into giving the task to him; 10th: Edmund awakes to a headache indicating that Adeara's been hurt, Edmund tells Alynna, Edmund leaves on his mission, Alynna scrys and finds that Adeara's been taken by Kiaransalee, Alynna and Elron rescue Adeara when Kiaransalee tries to start turning her into undead, Alynna pervents the potion from working, Alynna takes Adeara to Mystra to report on the direct interference of Kiaransalee, Mystra goes to inform the other gods, Alynna gathers the family so that Astra and Morgan can defend them, Jewel refuses to leave the palace so Alynna gest Astra to come to the palace to defend them while Morgan defends everyone in Hullack, Kiaransalee comes to Hullack and speaks to Alynna briefly before issuing a threat then leaving, Alax runs his defense from home, in the evening a large number of undead (skeletons & zombies) attack the town but are driven off with little loss. |
| 20060820 | 7 Eleasias 1385 | 9 Eleasias 1385 | 7th: Jullian and patrol have a peaceful night in the farmhouse; 8th: Jullian and patrol set out on a hard ride back to Hullack with their prisoners and evidence, Alax and family are awakened by the sounds of Renee's pleasure then have some pleasure of their own, Astra and family have their own pleasure at the same time, Edmund and Renee talk about her being with Jandice on their way into the forest, Edmund and Renee come across Drizz't Do'Urden in the forest, Drizz't says he was sent by Elminster to check out the drow situation in Hullack, Alax accepts he is who he says after some confirmation from Henric, Drizz't talks with Axil and sees for himself the situation then discusses it with Alax over lunch, in the afternoon Jullian and Bondree return with the patrol and prisoners, Alax questions the prisoners but they know nothing directly, the prisoners say their boss is the assassin Jorend Conwell and he would meet with them soon, Alax sends orders to Masoner's Bridge to set up an ambush for the assassin; 9th: Adeara heads out leading an infantry patrol into the forest, Jandice finally convinces Renee to marry him, Jullian tells Storm, Storm brings Roderic and family to help plan the wedding, Roderic and family learn of Alax's promotion, Ann goes to see Alax, Roderic goes to reminisce with Elron. |
| 20060819 | 3 Eleasias 1385 | 7 Eleasias 1385 | 3rd: Alynna verifies that Tanja is pregnant with a girl, Alax and Sir Brian talk, Oversword Valara Tolon comes to see Tanner and talks with Alax a bit first, Tanner visits Alax after dinner to get lumber for a settlement Tolon wishes to build between Arabel and Masoner's Bridge and they discuss how Tolon got her position and how they can make it more befitting her rank, Jullian decides to go on the next cavalry patrol led by Swordcaptain Boldree, Gareth summons the senior dwarven shipwright and discusses the plans-selling dwarf with him, Gareth then presses charges against the disloyal dwarf and he is arrested; 4th: Jullian leaves the keep bright and early with Swordcaptain Boldree's patrol and Oversword Tolon, the disloyal dwarf is tried and convicted, Jullian and the patrol arrive in Masoner's Bridge at the end of the day; 5th: Oversword Valara continues westward across the bridge while Jullian and patrol head north on Thunder Trail, a heavy rainstorm lasting most of the morning muddies the trail and slows them down and causes them to not make it to the Wanton Wyvern Inn by end of day so they camp, during the evening the patrol is raided by bandits who make off with half the patrol's horses but leave behind a few dead and prisoners, Sue calls on Alynna for help and Alynna finds her in an Arabellan back alley badly wounded and surrounded by dead Sharites, Alynna heals Sue then takes her home, Alax and Morgan are glad to find her back, Sue reveals she met Battlemaster Aris some time back and that he demanded favors of her or he'd ruin Alax (favors that Sue refused); 6th: Jullian and patrol head back for Masoner's Bridge with their prisoners but because half of them are on foot they can't make it back by end of day so they camp, one of the prisoners gives them some information about the other bandits; 7th: Jullian and patrol arrive at Masoner's Bridge by late morning, Boldree requests a scout to help him find the bandits, a war wizard goes to Alax in Hullack and Alax approves the scout, after only a very short wait Boldree gets his scout so goes out after the bandits, Jullian goes with the patrol, they find the bandits and their horses at a farm, Jullian and a Dragon are hit with arrows at the start then the other Dragons attack and take the bandits, Boldree removes Jullian's arrow then she tends to the wounded, they take a note off the bandits signed by 'A' revealing they have been hired to disguise themselves as Dragons then kill Alax and do what they want to his wives, they decide to camp at the farm since it's getting dark by that time. |
| 20060813 | 1 Eleasias 1385 | 3 Eleasias 1385 | 1st: Sue leaves on her mission; Alax catches Jandice coming out of Renee's room, Astra begins researching a new spell of her own devising, Jullian gears up and goes out with a Dragon patrol to the Thunder Gap garrison and treats a man for snakebite along the way; 2nd: Jandice and a couple of rangers bring back four drow for questioning that they caught in an ambush, Jandice and Renee have dinner at Edmunds, Alax receives the interrogation report of the drow and summons the people who need to know that the drow are planning to sieze Mielikki's refuge and use it as a base of operations against Hullack, Storm Jandice and Renee go to the refuge to warn them, Jullian returns home with the patrol; 3rd: Storm brings Renee and Jandice home, Roderic tells the other rangers of the refuge then tells Mielikki, Mielikki gives guidance, Battlemaster Aris sends Alax and half the keep's forces (cavalry and archers) out on a pointless patrol that leaves Hullack weakened, Jullian objects to Tanner, Tanner and Alynna object to Malcom, Malcom has the order rescindec, Aris arrested, promotes Tanner to Aris' position the promotes Alax to overswrod and Tanner's position, Henric is surprised to see that Renee has fallen head over heels for a Cormaeril. |
| 20060812 | 8 Flamerule 1385 | Midsummer 1385 | 18th: Edmund discovers that the drow have been mainly scouting the town and road outposts and that their points of entry into Cormyr are along a single path, Edmund reports this to Axil and suggests an ambush, Axil agrees but assigns other rangers to it and tells Edmund to check on the elk, Alax discovers that Natan was promoted to constal and given command of the 2nd Suzail Heavy Infantry but that he himself was given no alternative assignment, Alax discusses it with Malcom who refers him to Battlemaster Taevian Aris, Aris curtly tells Alax there will be no assignment for him for the forseeable future, Alax returns home and talks with Sue who tells him she'll be going on another mission for Selūne after the festival, Alax offers to accompany her and she agrees, Astra and Kalan plan to visit Kalan's family; 19th: Kalan asks for time off to visit her family and Alynna grants it once her cutrent project is done; Alynna discovers that Alycia is nearly two months prgnant with a boy, earlier in the summer Hector discovers that Patricia's modification of the cannon loading system works very will by handily sinking a pirate ship; 20th: Alax tells Tanner of his inactvie status and Tanner happens to have a position as a cavalry trainer open, Tanner pushes paperwork through to get Alax the job; 21st: Kalan finishes her project during the day so in the evening Astra teleports them to the colony to visit Kalan's family; 24th: Astra and family return home to Hullack; 25th: the paperwork for Alax's assignment as cavalry training officer comes through; Midsummer: the festival is held, Edmund wins the archery tournament, Roderic is quite unhappy to learn Renee was captured and tortued by drow and blames Edmund, Alax and Jandice Cormaeril talk and compare war wounds, Jandice gets Renee to agree to dance with him later, Jandice visits Gareth and gives him plans for Patricia's loading system he bought from a dwarf trying to sell the secrets and gareth thanks him, in the evening dancing is held and Renee enjoys herself with Jandice, after the festival Mellisa prematurely delivers her baby girl. |
| 20060806 | Greengrass 1385 | 8 Flamerule 1385 | Greengrass: Jullian and Morgan go out to join the dancing in the evening, A Zhent wizard arrives during the dancing and delivers to Jewel a proposal to cease hostilities during holidays and Jewel accepts, Edmund asks publically for Rashan to marry Mellisa into his family and the ceremony is performed; 22nd Mirtul: Astra and Morgan stop work to await the birth of her child 23rd: Morgan gives birth to Arangarr 28th: Astra and Morgan return to their arcane work; 9th Kythorn: Kalan gives birth to Kyra; 21st: Renee is captured by drow raiders and tortured for information about Alax's forces, Edmund tells Alynna of the tracks of the capture, Alynna scrys and and teleports to Renee to resuce her; Alynna kills the drow and heals Renee but cannot remove the facial scarring caused by their fire and acid techniques, Edmund arrives and takes Renee home, Alynna goes to Suzail to tell Jewel, Jewel comes to Hullack to see Renee and Alax sees her too; 22nd Kythorn: Alynna begins spending 16-hour days researching the acid and how to remove the scarring and quickly discovers the acid is used by followers of Velsharoon in the process of creating undead; 8th Flamerule: Alynna finds that the acid carries a curse powered by Velsharoon himself such that she cannot remove it, Alynna consults Mystra and learns the best she can do is use a wish to smooth it out and make it look better, Mystra will have a talk with Velsharoon, business has been heavy since the trade season started, Edmund learns that the drow are using magic to travel through trees directly from Cormanthor to Hullack and back, Edmund reports this to Axil, Sir Brian and Alax; Alynna uses a wish to significantly reduce Renee's scarring. |
| 20060805 | Greengrass 1385 | Greengrass 1385 | Greengrass: Jewel beats Edmund in the archery competition, Damin's arm is shattered by a cheating lumberjack in a wrestling contest but Edmund spots the cheat and beats the cheater at his own game, Durin revelas the cheat and the lumberjack is disqualified, Edmund loses the joust to Malic, Alynna talks to Jewel about Kirri and learns that the elves have abandoned Cormanthor to the drow, Alynna warns the drow will be turning their eyes to Cormyr and the Dales, Alax flattens a drunken lumberjack who offers Jewel money for sex, Jullian and Morgan return home to have some afternoon lovemaking, many young Purple Dragons pursue Renee but she fends them off, Lord Jandice Cormaeril and a few other lords visit, Jandice talks with Alax then Roderic, Jandice attempts to talk to Renee but she breaks his nose, Alynna heals him, A large lumberjack tries to rape Renee in an outhouse but Alynna and Jandice stop him, Jandice tells Alynna he was a royal scout during the golem war in the North, Renee talks with Roderic then Alax about the scouts and the Cormaerils, Renee tries to get Alax to play Malic and Jandice against each other to make them jealous but Alax refuses. |
| 20060730 | 14 Ches 1385 | Greengrass 1385 | 15th: The Tallman family gather to see Angelica and also celebrate Renee's 16th and Daniella's 12th birthdays, Renee sneaks out but Edmund finds her and prevents her from going to the tavern, Renee talks Roderic and Rashan into letting her stay to work as a ranger under Axil, Renee gets a room in Alax's house, Edmund spends the night with Mellisa for the first time but he just comforts her; 16th: Axil assigns Renee to work with Raymond and Kat will get a junior ranger to help her; 25th: Edmund and Mellisa begin their sexual relationship; 27th Tarsakh: Laspeera sends four black dragons after Morgan, Alax takes Morgan to Laspeera himself, Lasperra simply wanted to give some books to Morgan, Laspeera tells that she is now the Lord High Inquisitor after replacing the battlemaster; 30th: Edmund gets out the bows he made last summer/fall to test them and finds he has some fine bows, he keeps three and Kat takes one, Edmund has a man-to-man talk with Kessel; Greengrass: The festival gets off to a good start, Edmund shows off his bows and sells all four remaining ones for 1360 lions, Jewel brings a fancy elven longbow to the tournament; |
| 20060729 | 3 Nightal 1384 | 14 Ches 1385 | 3rd: remainder of evening is peaceful; 26th: Gareth comes down with the flu; 27th: Morgan and Astra inadvertantly swap while Morgan's passionately kissing Alax; 28th: Gareth tries to go out on business but Heather won't let him and he gives in; 29th: Jewel appoints a purple dragon battlemaster to be the new Lord High Inquisitor, Hector visits Jerrid in Gareth's place, Malcom visits Gareth for their chess game; 1st Hammer 1385: A blizzard hits all of Cormyr, Gareth is hit with a high fever; 2nd: Adeara speaks to Mellisa of her plan for Mellisa formally joining the family while Edmund takes a more casual 'let time heal and nature take its course' approach; 3rd: Edmund slips and pulls a back muscle while in the forest; 4th: The blizzard ends after dumping two feet in Suzail and 18 inches in Hullack, Gareth's fever breaks; 10th: Astra and Morgan make their first controlled swap after harnessing heightened emotion; 11th: Astra and Morgan begin scribing spells from Milana's Pyronomicon; 24th Alturiak: Astra and Kalan celebrate the first anniversary of their bonding; 25th: Lirra gives birth to Garbin; 7th Ches: Alax reports to High Horn as ordered for temporary duty which turns out to be leading one of four elements in an attack on the compound of the wizard causing the severe winter weather, a promotion to oversword will be offered to one of the four constals in the mission; 11th: The Purple Dragon force arrives at the compound and successfully takes it; Alax is put down early in the battle with a ballistae bolt through the right knee, Alax does not get the promotion (to his relief), Alax is carried home where Suesan regenerates his knee, Sue seems to have expected a promotion for Alax and mentions something about a promise from Malcom but doesn't elaborate; 14th: Sue gives birth to Angelica; |
| 20060716 | 2 Nightal 1384 | 3 Nightal 1384 | 2nd: Alynna takes Alax to Tallman House in Suzail where Alax goes through Rendel's papers and starts incorporating Rendel's business affairs into his own, Alax finds a few interesting items he keeps before the current Inquisitor's people come looking for them, Alynna takes Rendel's large scrying mirror (magic item) to Morgan for study and use, Alax talks business with the chamberlain of Tallman House in Suzail, Alax goes to the palace to tell Jewel of Rendel's death, Alynna checks on Mellisa and finds out she's pregnant with a girl, Alynna visits Roderic to tell him and his family of Rendel's death, the entire family gathers at Alax's house for a somber dinner and wake, four black dragons attempt to confiscate Rendel's body from the Mystran temple in Hullack by orders of the Lord High Inquisitor but Alynna takes them to Jewel who cancels the order (by means of a right cross) and fires the L.H.I.; 3rd: Rendel is buried adjacent to Reed's grave with Alynna performing a ceremony and the family in attendance, Roderic and Ann notice that Alax and Sue are on the outs and tell him to patch things up, Lord Silversword visits to pay his respects to Mellisa but Alax speaks to him instead, Malcom visits to pay respects and bring a number of gifts (bottles of liquor) from other knights and nobles, Malcom and Roderic talk as old friends, Malcom hints at a promotion for Alax but Alax expresses a desire to remain a regimental commander, Alynna takes Roderic and family home, Alax talks with Sue to patch things up and invite her back to the master bedroom, Alax spends time with the children before bedtime. |
| 20060715 | 21 Uktar 1384 | 1 Nightal 1384 | 21st: Astra and Morgan decide to wait on activating their Staff of Fiery Wrath and discuss future plans before deciding to work on honing their teleporting "swapping" ability, (sometime between 22nd and 30th): Alycia becomes a full mage with the successful research of her own spell, Edmund and rangers have been busy placing salt licks in the forest to help the animals through the winter; Feast of the Moon: a family gathering is held at the inn and is generally good, although Alax Sue and Jullian's 8th anniversary falls flat and Alynna is depressed with the 1st anniversary of Damian's death, Rendel attends and looks well, Rendel and Mellisa ask Alax and wives then Edmund and wives to help them have another child, Morgan refuses to allow Alax to father the child but Edmund's wives agree; 1st Nightal: Alynna examines Mellisa to insure she is healthy for childbearing then uses her conception spell on her; Mellisa goes to Edmund's house where Edmund and Adeara pleasure her and make her conceive; Rendel was scrying on them and killed himself with a wheellock pistol, Mellisa returns home and finds Rendel's body, Mellisa calls Alynna but it's too late, Alynna looks at Rendel's papers and finds that Rendel's cleric was giving him a poison in the guise of a cure for his illness and it was killing him and that Rendel knew it and arranged for Mellisa to be with one of his brothers to give them a reason to care for her after he killed himself, Mellisa takes Kessel to Hullack Inn while Alynna takes care of Rendel, Alynna visits Adeara to tell her of Rendel's death and of Rendel's intent to have Mellisa taken care of by a brother, Adeara agrees that Edmund should take Mellisa and Kessel in, Henric and Mellisa talk, Alynna goes to tell Alax and wives, Edmund and Adeara go to invite Mellisa to their home. |
| 20060709 | 18 Marpenoth 1384, start of day | 21 Uktar 1384 | 18th: Jewel is in a pleasant mood, the grandparents spend much time with the grandchildren at the palace, Morgan takes good care of Alax at home, Alynna also gives Jewel some governing advice, Jewel briefly attempts to hit on Alynna but Alynna easily fends it off, Jullian examines Alax's injury at the end of the day to find it healing well, Mystra pays Morgan and Jullian a brief visit and asks Jullian a question that she falls back on Selūnite doctrine to answer, Elron stays at the palace for the grandchildren but Alynna and Storm return home to Hullack; 20th: Roderic and family return home to the Mielikkian refuge; 20th: Roderic and family celebrate Ragnar's 6th birthday; 27th: Astra and Morgan and families jointly celebrate Aluaras Thorics and Tharyl's 1st birthday; 28th: Alax is examined and pronounced whole and functional, and he proves the point with Morgan; 29th: Sue's 24th birthday is celebrated; 30th: Alynna and Jenni celebrate their 20th anniversary; 21st Uktar: Astra and Morgan discover the third and last unlocking ritual of the Staff of Fiery Wrath. |
| 20060708 | 16 Marpenoth 1384, evening | 17 Marpenoth 1384, end of day | 16th: Alynna devises a plan to kidnap Fzoul Chembryl to exchange for Jewel, the family likes the plan and agrees to it, Elron brings Alax and Willis to the palace, Storm takes Alynna to an unused bedroom in Zhentil Keep so she can study it for a teleport of the team then they return to the palace, Storm tells the team about all the traps and hazards she knows of; 17th: At about 3am Alynna teleports Roderic Alax Izak and Willis to Zhentil Keep, the team makes its way to Fzoul's bedchamber, the team succeeds in restraining Fzoul and his bedmate and teleporting out before guards arrive, Alax is injured in the testicles by Fzoul in the attempt, Alynna teleports them through two waypoints before returning to Suzail, Fzoul and his bedmate are taken to the dungeon, Alynna interrogates the woman and learns she is a follower of Loviatar, Bane sends an emissary to them, Alynna negotiates exchange of Fzoul for Jewel, Jewel is returned and Fzoul is released, Jewel seems to have been influenced by Bane, Alynna treats Alax's injury at Morgan's request and over his own objection, Morgan teleports Alax directly to bed, Alynna learns from Jewel that Bane bedded her and was good, Jewel thinks that Bane's not as bad as everyone's said, Alynna talks Jewel into returning to her husband's bed that night, Elron and Storm concentrate on pleasing Alynna. |
| 20060702 | 16 Marpenoth 1384 | 16 Marpenoth 1384, evening | 16th: A pair of Baneite priests with bodyguards arrives at the inn, Alax knew from their entry through the garrison at Thunder Gap that they intend to establish a temple in Hullack, Alax discovers that the two Zhent spies he was warned had bought a house in the residential part of town, Alax sends a letter to Jewel asking for legal advice, Jewel comes to tell him to order the men out, Alax tries to do so within the bounds of the law but the Baneite agrees to follow every law Alax states, Alax tells Jewel this, Jewel goes to the Baneite to personally demand he leave, The Baneite priest abducts her and teleports away, Alax captures the second priest after he kills Tanja and several others, while the dragons kill the bodyguards, Alax tells Alynna of Jewel's kidnapping, Alynna scryes and finds her being held by Bane himself, Alynna takes Elron and Storm to the palace to tell Izak and family and make sure they are safe, Alax takes the priest prisoner to the Lord High Inquisitor then meets up with Alynna and Izak, Alynna and Storm go to bring Roderic and family back, Alynna visits Mystra to ask if Bane's custody is an intervention against Ao's laws but it isn't, Alynna returns to Suzail, Izak send Alax back home after receiving the report on the second priest's interrogation that statued Alax was the primary target and Jewel was only a target of opportunity leading Izak to think the ulimate goal is taking Hullack, Alax asks Sue and Jullian to tend to Tanja, Tanja and a waitress are resurrected, Sue and Jullian help clean up the mess in Henric's inn, Alax broods the rest of the day, Alynna discovers that Bane is controlling her scrying on Jewel to some degree so she can't trust anything she sees. |
| 20060701 | 13 Marpenoth 1384 | 15 Marpenoth 1384 | 13th: Elisa talks with Henric over breakfast, Sue talks to Alynna about Jullian's increasing deference to her until Selūne calls her away for a Chosen task, Sue tells Alax about the task (investigating murders of priestesses & prostitutes in Suzail) as she packs, Morgan scrys on Sue that night and discovers she's working in a brothel, Morgan and Jullian decide not to tell Alax, Alynna keeps a scrying eye on Sue at Jullian's request; 14th: Alynna visits Sue to make sure she's doing all right, mear Midnight Sue calls Alynna for help and Alynna helps Sue apprehend the two men who are murderers, the two men turn out to be Sharites, Sue returns home after the two men are turned over to the Purple Dragons; 15th: Alax is glad Sue's home but Sue doesn't want to make love, Alynna comes to undo Sue's dyed-hair disguise, Sue does want to make love with Jullian and Morgan, Jullian suggests that Sue should tell Alax, Jullian and Sue discuss her experiences, Sue visits Alynna for a checkup to make the baby is all right (it is), Sue tells Alax the details of what her mission required and Alax doesn't like it, Alax insists shenot leave becaue she's carrying heir child and that Sue should stay in the second bedroom, Darthor's second birthday is celebrated, Jullian spends the night with Alax. |
| 20060625 | 11 Marpenoth 1384 | 12 Marpenoth 1384 | 11th: the orc mercenaries march out westward towards Suzail with a Purple Dragon escort to make sure trouble is avoided, Morgan gets sick and Astra discovers she's pregnant with a boy, Morgan goes home, Alax is happy but Sue is angered when Morgan says that she's wearing the ring after this one, Sue goes to Jullian to discuss it, Jullian supports Sue in her opposition but realizes there's nothing they can reasonably do about it if Morgan insists, Kalan's study is disrupted by Astra and Raymond's afternoon delight, Alax and family have dinner at the inn during the evening, relations are a bit cool between Morgan and Sue that evening; 12th: Morgan returns to research with Astra, harsh winter weather comes to Cormyr, Hector and crew are landbound after a successful summer of capturing 4 smuggling vessels and saving a ship from rocks, Patricia is promoted to first lieutenant, Hector puts Patricia to work belowdecks to keep her out of trouble during the idle season, Alynna gets her usual winter weather moodiness. |
| 20060624 | 6 Marpenoth 1384 | 11 Marpenoth 1384 | 6th: After wrapping up some small talk with Khelben, Astra and Morgan visit the towers for the rest of the day before going home; 8th: Alynna and Storm celebrate their 20th anniversary with shopping and a visit to her farm; 9th: Jullian finds the temple a mess the priestesses gone and Ander near death, Jullian heals Ander and he tells her professional-like orcs took the priestesses, Jullian runs to alert the keep, Alax leads a patrol out to search for them with Edmund tracking ahead of them, near nightfall they find a cabin with the orcs, Alax makes peaceful contact with their leader (a half-orc named Adredd Doomhammer), Adredd and his men were invited by Jewel to help fight crime, the priestesses are there unharmed and were brought to treat injuries to Adredd caused by Zhents attacking him, Alax camps his patrol next to the orc camp; 10th: orc scout reports to Adredd and Alax that two zhents went into Hullack town, Alax and patrol march back to Hullack with orcs and priestesses, Alax allows orcs to stay in keep for the night, Alysan has a birthday party at the inn in which Walth asks her to marry him and she accepts, Jullian agrees to perform the ceremony on the 30th; 11th: Elisa describes her participation in a minor Suneite ceremony to her parents. |
| 20060618 | 1 Eleasias 1384 | 6 Marpenoth 1384 | 1st Eleasias: Morgan gives her life to save Sue when the keep gate falls down, Sue resurrects Morgan with her staff of life, Astra is seriously affected by Morgan's death but lives, Astra and Morgan rest for the remainder of the day; 2nd: Astra and Morgan begin researching the legacy staff; 7th: Alynna helps Therissa deliver her baby; 10th: Alynna helps Tallia deliver her baby; 26th: Astra and Morgan discover the ritual to unlock the least legacy and discuss it with Alynna; 28th: Astra and Morgan begin learning staff fighting under Alynna and Suesan and get some lumps and bruises out of it; 24th Eleint: Jullian helps Tulli deliver her baby; Higharvestide: Everyone has a good festival; 5th Marpenoth: Astra and Morgan discover the ritual to unlock the lesser legacy of the staff, Astra doesn't like it because it's subjective and decides to return the staff to Khelben, Khelben tells them the story of that legacy and explains the metaphor of the ritual, Astra agrees to keep working on the staff; 6th: Alynna gives Kalan a checkup and Kalan invites Alynna and family for dinner the next evening. |
| 20060617 | 28 Kythorn 1384 | Shieldmeet 1384 | 28th: Alax finishes conversation with Natan, the ring Morgan was working on exploded so she and Astra shop for another, Astra discovers that Raymond's book (of love poetry) has been published; 3rd Flamerule: Astra finishes scribing Chain Lightning; 4th: Storm reads Raymond's book of poetry and tells Alynna about it; 11th: Astra finishes scribinbg Seal Portal; 14th: Alynna helps Lirra with some dental work on the dire bear Old Grumpy; 19th: Astra finishes scribing Stone to Flesh; 20th: Astra and Kalan take the day off for dress shopping, while in Suzail a young noblewoman tries to hit on Raymond right in front of Astra, Alynna and Storm visit her Shadowdale farm and pond, Morgan gives Alax the Ring of Light she finished but finds that Alax already had some light in his purple dragon ring; 28th: Astra finishes scribing Geas; Midsummer: Everyone has a good time, Roderic visits Hullack and Suzail, Jewel wins archery contest in Suzail, Edmund wins archery contest in Hullack; Shieldmeet: The formal ceremonies and ball for the nobles is held in Suzail and goes according to routine, several noblewomen make fools of themselves over Raymond and Astra embarasses them with a spell, Alax and wives leave early to go to the Conjuring of the Second Moon ceremony, Selūne appears and makes Sue the first of her Chosen rather than a Shard and reveals that Sue is pregnant, Selūne gifts the temple with moonfire before leaving. |
| 20060611 | 26 Kythorn 1384 | 28 Kythorn 1384 | 26th: Henric and Tess have a private family dinner for Elisa; 27th: Alynna escorts Elisa to the Suneite temple in Suzail at the top of the morning and gives her a ring of contraception, Alynna arranges a room at the palace for Elisa when she needs it, Jewel gives Elisa Jullian's old room, Alynna goes to Walth's place to examine the girls and finds one of them has a venereal disease, Alynna treats it then asks High Watcher Horthon Sheel to check the men of the keep and town that the woman was with, Horthon chooses to check every man including Alax; 28th: Elisa starts her first day as an acolyte, Alax goes to the colony to get an update from Natan. |
| 20060610 | 25 Kythorn 1384 | 26 Kythorn 1384 | 25th: Mystra visits the twins after they return home and tell them the spellbook (Milana's Pyronomicon) belonged to the wizard Milana and the staff belonged to the wizard Althinia, Mystra reveals to Alynna that the staff has a legacy that must be figured out by the twins by themselves, Astra and Morgan discover that an identify spell will say the staff is something different with each attempt, Naladar attempts to move out of the house and into the barn to live closer to the animals but Alynna talks him out of it, at Alynna's urging Naladar stops a bet he made with Erin that she wouldn't run naked through the inn, Jenni tells Alynna of a rumor about something happening to Elisa involving taking her disrobing; 26th: Astra and Morgan return to their normal work after deciding to wait on the staff until they can research it together, Alynna summons Elisa to talk with her and discovers Elisa intends to become a priestess of Sune, Alynna tells Elisa to inform her parents, Elisa tells her parents, Henric and Tess don't like the idea but realize they can't really stop her and keep her love so reluctantly consent, Elisa talks with Emy at Henrics consent, Elisa tells Alax and Sue, Sue is happy for her, Elisa tells Jullian then returns home. |
| 20060604 | 12 Kythorn 1384 | 25 Kythorn 1384 | 12th: Astra Raymond and Kalan talk about the pregnancy, Kalan tells Alynna at the temple as they begin the day's studies, Jullian goes to visit Hellen at the colony who is close to term, Hellen goes into labor as they talk and delivers a boy after a 12-hour labor, Jullian returns home exhausted; 13th: Morgan allows Jullian to sleep late, the day goes uneventfully, Alax visits Natan and his son in the early evening, Jullian gives Morgan pleasure at bedtime; 15th: Astra finishes scribing Morgan's Dimensional Dwelling; 23rd: Astra finishes scribing Disintegrate; 24th: Astra tests her new spell, Astra and Morgan take Raymond and Kalan to Tower Lazarac, the two orcs are just as afraid of Kalan as she is of them but they get past it, they return to Hullack for dinner; 25th: Mystra gets Astra Morgan Alynna and Storm to go on a mission to free some mages and paladins from a vampiric curse gained in her service, Astra and Morgan use their divine blood to free the vampires, Astra and Morgan gain a book and staff of fire from the tomb, [Astra, Morgan, Alynna and Storm get 1,200XP for the six vampires.] |
| 20060603 | 11 Kythorn 1384 | 12 Kythorn 1384 | 11th: Astra and Morgan and Mystra finish their conversation, an elven caravan guard attacks and seriously wounds Danya because she's drow, Henric and sons stop him from killing her, Jullian heals Danya then the guard (while lecturing the guard and getting nowhere), Jullian warns Alynna of the drow-hater then stands an all-night guard around the inn in case the elf tries again, Alynna warns Kalan and Astra at the end of the day, Astra stays up the night to be ready to defend Kalan, the night passes peacefully; 12th: the caravan leaves town with the guard tied up, Astra uses a spell to determine that Kalan is pregnant with a girl. |
| 20060528 | 8 Kythorn 1384 | 11 Kythorn 1384 | 8th: Jullian tells her family what happened to Willis and Alax and Morgan agree to come, Sue has objections but is talked into accepting it and talked into staying behind, Astra and Raymond arrive at Willis' house, Alynna convinces Raymond to help with Rendel's help, Willis kills the captain and two thugs the same way his family was killed - the captain was burned alive, one thug was eviscerated and the other was beaten to death; 9th: it's a rainy day in Hullack, Alynna visits Tulli and examines her and discovers her heart is bad, Naladar tries to keep live fish in Alynna's bathtub after Elron caught them for supper, Jullian talks with Sue about the plans for Kalan's wedding, Qilué talks with Astra and family after watching them make love, Qilué stays the night; 10th: Alynna uses a restoration spell to cure Tulli's ailing heart, Alynna performs the ceremony to wed Kalan to Astra and Raymond, the family has a reception lunch at Henric's inn, Raymond spends as much of the rest of the day making love to his wives as he can, Hector sets sail on a clear morning; 11th: Mystra visits Astra and Morgan and has a discussion about the Weave and predestiny vs. free will. |
| 20060527 | 6 Kythorn 1384 | 8 Kythorn 1384 | 6th: Astra and family spend time together, Alax and family spend some time together, including a visit to the colony, the family dinner is postponed until Alynna returns; 7th: Kalan starts her first day of apprenticeship under Alynna, Astra begins learning some new spells, Alax visits Malcom, the group/family dinner is held in Alax's house, a formal wedding for Kalan Astra and Raymond is discussed; 8th: Willis and family are discovered murdered in his house, Alynna resurrects them (but can do nothing about the unborn baby Sasha was carrying) and has Rendel remove the memory of it from the children's minds, Willis says that it was a ship captain and a couple of his thugs did it, Alynna calls for the group to be assembled to seek retribution. |
| 20060521 | 4 Kythorn 1384 | 6 Kythorn 1384 | 4th: Hector gets orders to not attack any more of Willis' ships and learns his ship will get only half the prize money he had expected, Sasha visits Hector at the ship to ask why Kandra started working as a servant in her house this morning, Hector explains the situation to Sasha and asks her to send Kandra home, Hector goes home to speak to Kandra at lunch, Gareth goes to visit Alax to ask for his help with Willis and Alax reluctantly agrees, Alax goes to talk with Willis and gets him to agree to not harm Hector in return for getting his ship and goods back, Alax arranges to have a large family dinner at his house on the 6th, during lovemaking that night Elron reforms his elven bond with Alynna; 5th; Mystra takes Astra and family and Morgan and children to Sigil to a mage fair, they buy some sets of masterwork blank spellbooks (for Alynna, Astra and Kalan) and some inks and have a generally wonderful day, Mystra reveals to Astra that Selūne plans to make Sue the first of her Chosen instead of a Shard, during the evening Mystra visits Elron and Alynna and they have some three-way fun, Mystra spends the night with them; 6th: Raymond brings up the subject of making a brother or sister for Aluara and after discussion Kalan agrees to if Alynna will let her, Elron and Alynna find the purple dragon and warn him of the danger of the Dragon Cultists then go to await their arrival, the Dragon Cultists arrive that evening and Elron and Alynna defeat them easily while they are climbing a cliff freehand, Elron and Alynna tell the purple the cultists were taken care of then return the amulet and books to Xilaxis then give the cultists magic items to a red dragon Elron is aware of before returning home to Storm and Jenni, the four of them share a nice hot bath. |
| 20060520 | 2 Kythorn 1384 | 4 Kythorn 1384 | 2nd: Alax Sue and Jullian spend the day close to each other including a picnic lunch in the forest, Astra spends the day teaching Kalan Chondathan, Alynna and Elron reach the foothills of the Sunset mountains by the end of the day; 3rd: Elron uses a sending to tell Astra that her spare spellbooks are ruined, Alynna warns Storm that Astra may be coming, Storm kept the children (particularly Andrhel) away from the house and let Jenni handle Astra, Willis visits Gareth in the afternoon to demand that House Dauntinghorn restore his ship, Gareth discusses the matter and Willis reveals he is head of the thieves guild hall in Suzail and that the ship was his, Gareth agrees to speak to Malcom about the ship in order to save any unpleasantness befalling Hector, Willis goes to talk with Hector, Hector is troubled by the idea that other captains have been corrupted to leaev smugglers alone, Hector refuses to be corrupted but he and Willis arrive at an agreement on rules of engagement, Gareth visits Malcom for a game of chess and to ask for the return of Willis' ship, Malcom reveals that Jewel has already ordered it restored and had to be talked out of disciplining Hector; 4th: Astra and spouses have some morning fun, Jullian checks on Tulli's pregnancy and finds nothing wrong, Alynna and Elron find a mountain stream to camp by in the evening and have some fun in it. |
| 20060514 | 1 Kythorn 1384 | 2 Kythorn 1384 | 1st: Jullian convinces Sue to resume being a priestess and become a Shard on Shieldmeet, Sue tells Alax of her decision and he agrees becoming a Shard is better than death, a ruby dragon calling himself Xilaxis visits Alynna and asks for healing, Alynna heals him, Elron remarks that he knew a Xilaxis who was an amethyst dragon so he and Alynna go to investigate, they find the amethyst Xilaxis dying from weapon wounds, Alynna heals him, Xilaxis tells that a group of Dragon Cultists are hunting the last known purple dragon (no relation to Cormyr's Purple Dragon), Alynna and Elron agree to go help it, Alynna and Elron teleport to the Tunland and set off walking towards the purple's lair in the highest peak of the Sunset Mountains and have an enjoyable walk for the rest of the day, after lunch Astra gives Kalan a tour of the palace and introduces her and Izak and wives, Hector and crew find and capture a smuggling ship on Cormyr's coast; 2nd: Hector arrives back in Suzail with his prize, Hector attends a celebration with the crew in a Suzail tavern in the evening. |
| 20060506 | 30 Mirtul 1384 | 1 Kythorn 1384 | 30th: Morgan spends the night with Jullian while Alax and Sue entertain themselves, Jullian prays for quite a while before she goes to bed and isn't in the mood for intimacy, Astra sleeps with Aluara on her chest. 1st Kythorn: Alysan comes home and is introduced to Kalan, Alysan tells Astra she is marrying Walth, Astra questions Alysan about it before accepting it, Alysan packs her things and leaves Astra's house, Astra Kalan and Raymond go shopping in Suzail, Mystra takes Astra and Morgan to a meeting of the gods during lunchtime, the gods discuss the problem of the people whom Alynna cured (whose ancestors used to be elite warriors of Shar), Astra tells them of what she saw and convinces them that no action against them is needed, Shar is angry her 'elite warriors' have become peaceful people, Astra and Morgan are returned to where they were summonned from and warns Elron and Alynna that punishment from Selūne will be forthcoming, Selūne uses Jullian as the instrument of punishment for Alynna and Elron by making them think Jullian died for not trusting the Moonmaiden, Selūne and Jullian speak briefily, Jullian goes to Sue to tell her she still has the option of becoming a Shard but it's up to her. |
| 20060430 | 11 Ches 1384 | 30 Mirtul 1384 | 11th Ches: Alynna's research continues; 16th: Alynna has a major setback in her research and Storm makes her take the rest of the day off to unwind; 28-30th: Alynna suffers a couple of setbacks then a critical setback in her research; 8th Tarsakh: Alynna suffers another critical setback in her research, causing some to lose confidence, Morgan expresses a lack of confidence and Willis slaps her hard for it; 25th: Alynna succeeds in discovering the nature of the disease - it is of divine nature and originated in a curse by Selūne, Alynna chooses to proceed despite the possible familial or political consequences and just keep the specifics secret, Storm goes out shopping for the ingredients and Alynna goes to bed early to get some rest; 26th: Alynna begins the alchemical work developing the cure; During Tarsakh & Early Mirtul: Sue takes several business trips to Waterdeep and stays late into the evening, getting some silks from a supplier that were promosed to House Dauntinghorn, Jullian suspects adultery but says nothing, Gareth finds out from spies that Sue got his promised goods and uses questionable means to learn she had an affair with a merchant but decides to sit on the information because it was gotten questionably. 28th Mirtul: Alynna succeeds in formulating the cure and administers it to the group; 29th: By the afternoon the group remains free of the disease; 30th: Alax takes the cure to the high priest and the great lord and gives it to them, Sue reveals to Jullian the truth about her declining to become a Shard - that the Moonmaiden foretold her fated death soon after, Jullian advises Sue to pray for forgiveness and acceptance back, Alax and group return home to find an awkward situation between Jullian and Sue, Alax and Sue go to bed together while Jullian goes to second bedrom, everyone else has a happy homecoming. |
| 20060429 | 28 Alturiak 1384, early evening (colony time) | 11 Ches 1384 | 28th: Alynna and girls bathe then settle in to the books they brought to the house, Willis and Edmund return to tell of what they learned of the city and draw out a city map, Willis heads out to the brothel he found, Astra and spouses have a great time before going to sleep, Alynna calls to Storm to ask for some lab equipment be sent without any person coming but Storm brings it herself to be with her; 29th: Willis returns home after an impressive visit to the local brothel, Alynna begins researching the disease;30th: Alax goes to see the high priest, the high priest takes him to the 'great lord' who approves Alax request for embassy, Morgan sneaks the sex book into Astra's room, Astra and spouses find it that night and look through it before going to bed; 1st Ches: Alax and Morgan walk about the town and learn that Willis has been telling tall tales of himself as Emperor of Cormyr; 2-11 Ches: Alynna makes progress in her research with a minor setback along the way. |
| 20060423 | 28 Alturiak 1384, afternoon (colony time) | 28 Alturiak 1384, early evening (colony time) | 28th: The group finds the city to be intact and inhabited by humans, Alax asks to speak to someone in authority and the group is taken to the high priest of the city, the high priest tells them that the entire city is afflicted with a magical disease and no one can leave, Alynna decides to find a cure for the disease but the high priest does not believe she'll succeed, Alax attempts to establish diplomacy with the high priest while Alynna and the girls are allowed to use the city's library, Alax and group are given a house to use as a residence for their stay (the high priest expects it to be permanent), Willis and Edmund go out scouting the town while Alax and Raymond study a book of laws and customs given to them, Alynna and the girls go to the house with the books they got from the library. |
| 20060422 | 27 Alturiak 1384, start of day (colony time) | 28 Alturiak 1384, afternoon (colony time) | 27th: Most of group has a morning swim before breakfast, Adanail tells of a 'land of the ancients' containing undead at the end of the peninsula that Kalan identifies as the city of Darkmoon, group sets out after breakfast, Edmund convinces a panther to move along and not attack one of the group for food, group arrives at the mouth of the river just north of the mountain by mid-afternoon and stops, Raymond Astra and Kalan swim and recreate in the ocean while the rest of the group does in a lakelike widening just short of the mouth of the river, group has a restful night; 28th: Group sets out along the coast, finds an orchid they'd never seen before, then finds the city of Darkmoon hidden by a large invisibility field, group enters the visibility field. |
| 20060416 | 23 Alturiak 1384, end of day (colony time) | 26 Alturiak 1384, end of day (colony time) | 23th: (morning of 24th Hullack time) Alynna visits Qilué to help with a philosophical problem one of Qilué's students is having; 24th: Astra wakes to Kalan pleasuring her then returns the favor, as Kalan climaxes she forms an elven bond with Astra and Astra is profoundly affected, Astra and Kalan then work on Raymond, Morgan's getting heated up so Alax takes care of her, the lot of them bathe in the hot springs afterward before a late breakfast, Alynna returns to the group, then the group sets out from the drow settlement, the group climbs 2,000 feet to the rim, rappels down 500 feet, then descend for an hour before camping; 25th: Alax and group descends further down the mountain before camping. 26th: Alax and group have another peaceful hike to the base of the mountain where they camp at Adanail's fishing spot. |
| 20060415 | 22 Alturiak 1384, morning (colony time) | 23 Alturiak 1384, end of day (colony time) | 22nd: The group goes on their last day of worm hunting, the group kills four worms and another nest of worm eggs, the group finds a very large piece of obsidian, at the end of the day Alynna returns home for her birthday (it's early on the morning of 23rd back home), Kalan and Astra talk after dinner, Raymond introduces Kalan to oral pleasure; 23rd: Morgan takes Alax to the colony in the morning to converse with Natan and the elven and dwarven leaders, Alax tells them the drow will be starting trade soon, Astra takes Raymond Willis and Kalan back to Hullack (evening of the 23rd there), Kalan takes some things to Astras house then visits the inn (Danya and Kalan talk) the keep (Jullian is a bit pushy about Astra and Kalan being together) and Elron and family before returning to the drow settlement for lunch, the group has a peaceful day, at bedtime Astra shows Kalan how to pleasure Raymond orally. [Alax and group get 7000XP each for the the fourteen worms and two egg nests.] |
| 20060409 | 20 Alturiak 1384, start of day | 22 Alturiak 1384, morning (colony time) | 20th: Raymond got little sleep the previous night having spent most of it in prayer, after breakfast the group explores the tunnels again and finds the tunnel to the outside of the mountain where an overgrown path seems to lead to the elven village, the group returns to the drow settlement for dinner and a relaxing soak in a hot spring, Astra prays to Mystra before bed and has a talk with her in which Mystra gives little guidance but leaves handling the situation with Kalan up to Astra; 21st: Alax and group find and visit the Lake of Fire below the drow city then return for dinner, after dinner Alynna and Kalan talk and Kalan shows Alynna an ancient copy of a map of most of the continent, Raymond and Astra talk in private and decide they need to accept Khalan but should postpone any intimacy, Alynna asks Storm to bring her a couple of things, Storm does and advises Kalan to 'get it over with', Alynna copies the map with a spell, Kalan returns to her room, Alynna and Storm make love, Kalan gets into bed with Astra and Raymond and says she's ready but it's evident she's terrified, Raymond decides that Kalan's fear needs to be eased so he shows how its done with Astra then consummates with Kalan; 22nd: Kalan is much relaxed, Kalan and Astra talk. |
| 20060408 | 18 Alturiak 1384, mid-afternoon (colony time) | 19 Alturiak 1384, end of day | 18th: The group finishes discussing tactics then implement them successfully by killing the three worms and destroying all the eggs, Willis discovers another weakness in the worms (smaller soft scales at the base of the neck), the group returns to the drow settlement, at dinner the elder offers them his daughters for the evening but Alax respectfully declines, after dinner Kalan-hrae looks ill and upon questions reveals that she was poisoned (and likely Raymond) with a drug called 'kiss of Lolth' that forces a female to accept a mate or die, Astra sends Kalan to Alynna who cures the poison, Alynna then cures Raymond as well, Astra and Kalan talk for a bit, then Kalan leaves seeming a bit upset; 19th: Kalan is not present at breakfast so Alynna scrys for her and finds her in the tunnels being attacked by two worms, Alynna teleports there and kills the two worms to rescue her, Kalan tells that she'd rather die than be exiled and never see her family again, Alynna talks her out of trying to get herself killed then they return to the settlement, Alynna cleans up then tells Kalan's aunt she will be held personally responsible for Kalan's safety, Alax and group explore the tunnels, they find one worm eating another then find a ancient drow city, the city is empty except for the guardian of the city Rhyldriira (an archlich archmage and servant of Eilistraee), the group establishes peaceful contact with her and tells her that some of her people survived above, Rhyldriira rewards them all for killing worms with a ring of translation each, Rhyldriira reveals that someone before even her time built the volcano (it's artificial) but she doesn't know who, Alax and group escort Rhyldriira back to the drow settlement where she is welcomed, Rhyldriira is not happy about how the drow treat their women, Astra tries to get Rhyldriira to annul the 'marriage' between Kalan and Raymond but after hearing the drow elder's side of it she maintains it was proper by their customs, Alynna finds that Kalan and her aunt got in a fight so Alynna gives the Aunt a black eye just to reinforce that Kalan is under her protection, a young drow at dinner dismisses the power of mages so Morgan gives him an object lesson, Kalan is surprised and fearful to learn that Astra is of royal blood but Alynna reassures her. |
| 20060402 | 18 Alturiak 1384, start of day (colony time) | 18 Alturiak 1384, mid-afternoon (colony time) | 18th: Alax and group return to the tunnels to kill three more of the worms, find a large diamond in the rough, find a cave with three worms guarding a nursery and discuss tactics for dealing with them. |
| 20060401 | 12 Alturiak 1384, start of day (colony time) | 17 Alturiak 1384, end of day (colony time) | 12th: Alax decides to alter his expedition plans to include an ascent to the top of the 11,000 foot high mountain north of the settlement, Alax and group meet with the elves and dwarves on the way out to learn that none have been up the mountain but 10,000 years ago a human wizard lived in the crater at the top, the first day's climb goes well; 13th: The second day's climb goes well for Alax and group; 14th: Alynna takes a fall but is caught by the rope; 15th: Alynna and Astra take falls but are caught by their ropes; 16th: The entire group falls but their ripes catch them; Alynna's rope becomes badly frayed and is replaced before continuing on, Willis reaches the peak first, the group discovers a deep valley within the crater 2,000 feet down with sheer sides, group makes camp at the crater rim; 17th: At midmorning the group uses featherfall spells to safely get into the valley, the group find the valley full of trees, coffee plants bearing exceptionally large beans and alpacas, at the center of the crater valley the group discovers a black stone tower (short but wide) next to a hot spring, the group finds the tower to be inhabited by friendly drow elves who have been cut off from the outside world by great worms (not dragons) created by the human wizard long ago who block the tunnels leading from the valley and feed on anything in the tunnels, at Alax's request the elderly drow who runs the house leads them to a tunnel where the worms may be found, Alax and group explore the tunnel and kill two of the worms (who resemble armored and overgrown carrion crawlers and have a paralyzing breath) before returning to the tower, the head drow is pleased at their success and the group dines with the drow, the group meets the elder drow's youngest daughter (Kalen-hrae) who refuses to be married because she wishes to become a mage, Alynna agrees to train Kalen-hrae, through a simple mishap Kalen-hrae ends up married to Raymond by the elder's law and the elder cannot be talked out of it - if Kalen-hrae does not bond with Raymond she will be banished from the community, Raymond and Astra are forced to spend the night in Kalen-hrae's bedroom but nothing comes of it; |
| 20060326 | 9 Alturiak 1384, morning | 11 Alturiak 1384, end of day (colony time) | 9th: Hector learns his third lieutenant was found dead on the ice, and investigators learn he was involved with a smuggling ring, Gareth visits Jerrid and finds him in a pit cell and subject to indignities by the guards, Gareth complains to Jewel, Jewel has Jerrid moved to a better cell and the pit cells filled in and sealed off; 10th: Elron finishes his talk with Alynna then goes to inform Jullian of what Sue told him, Jullain will consider forgiving Alax, Alax spends the day with Sue and the children, the children are a bit sulky because of the problems between Alax and Jullian, Morgan and Astra spend the day getting their scrolls and spell components in order, Alax spends the night pleasuring Sue while Jullian and Morgan talk then do the same; 11th: Jullian gives Alax a nice wakeup call to let him know she's making peace with him, Alax's entire family spends the day together less the couple hours Sue spends taking care of family business, the extended family has dinner at Alax before seeing the group off, Alynna takes the group to the colony where it's the top of the morning of the 11th, the group settles in to Alax's mansion while Alax reviews the situation in the colony and talks with Natan, Alax tells Natan to investigate the disappearances of some common laborers and Lionar Tabitha Jekrek, Alax is not happy to learn that a family of Waterdhavians moved to the colony, Natan and Hellen have dinner with Alax and group in his mansion, Hellen is pregnant but Natan appears unhappy with it, the dinner goes well, the group gets a good night sleep after dinner. |
| 20060325 | 8 Alturiak 1384, morning | 10 Alturiak 1384, morning | 8th: Sue busies herself with family business, Jullian is at the temple, Alax spends the day with the children, Alynna stays with Elron, at the end of the day Hector finds Kandra in Suzail at the Dauntinghorn House (her transfer went through) and he talks with her, Jullian spends the night with Morgan in the second bedroom, Alax and Sue talk briefly before sleeping; 9th: Jullian still refuses to go adventuring, at Alax's urging Morgan asks Alynna to come, Flonna thinks it's a good idea so Alynna agrees, near the end of the day Tulli faints so Jullian sends her to Alynna, Alynna finds out Tulli is pregnant, Alynna discusses adventuring with her spouses and they agree, Alynna and Elron visit Alax and Jullian, Jullian bullheadedly refuses to let her parents talk her out of her anger toward Alax, Elron attempts to get to Sue to talk with her but Jullian threatens to attempt to forcibly restrain him so he leaves, Jullian spends the night in the second bedroom again; 10th: Elron talks to Sue while Jullian and Alax are away and learns the reason why Sue was to be made a Shard and why Sue declined, Elron tells Alynna of what he learned. |
| 20060319 | 7 Alturiak 1384, evening | 8 Alturiak 1384, morning | 7th: Sue tells Alax about Selūne taking her come Shieldmeet, Alax doesn't like it at all and argues against it, Alax leaves to sleep in the other room, Sue goes to the temple alone to pray, Hector arrives at the colony port and reports to Commodore Yandress then goes to see Kandra briefly before using the portal to Suzail, Hector meets with Jewel and she tells him he's been reassigned to Suzail because he's the heir to his house (but no other detail), Hector goes home where his parents fill him in, Hector returns to the colony to spend the rest of the day with Kandra; 8th: Sue quits being a priestess so she can remain home, Jullian tries but fails to talk Sue out of it, Jullian skips breakfast to go to the temple to pray, Alax is pleased when he wakes up, Jullian returns at the end of breakfast quite angry at Alax, Jullian tells them that she cannot adventure because the temple needs her, Jullian returns to the temple after a quick breakfast, Sue tells Alax she had already sent for a replacement to be high priestess of the temple instead of allowing Jullian to take the position, Jullian finds the new high priestess Tulli Drovershir at the temple, Jullian is put out but Tulli turns out to be very nice and an old friend of Sues, Jullian talks with Tulli and her husband Ander (who is quite older than Tulli, more a contemporary of Elron who knew him before Alynna did), Ander visits with Elron after which Elron begins drinking and Alynna is there to comfort him, Hector returns to Suzail and discovers his new assignment is the command of a pirate hunter that's currently frozen in at dock in Suzail, Hector finds that there are only four crew aboard and that they are discipline problems, Hector discovers that the problem first lieutenant is his fourth cousin Patricia Ellen Dauntinghorn, Hector can't get her dismissed from service so he makes her the last lieutenant then tries to get the crew working on the ship. |
| 20060318 | 6 Alturiak 1384, early afternoon | 7 Alturiak 1384, evening | 6th: Gareth receives word that Heather has collapsed so he rushes home, the Tymoran cleric cannot determine the cause, at Gareth's urging the cleric's divinations reveal only that Heather's suffering from an unspecified internal head injury that spells cannot heal, Gareth takes Heather to Alynna, Heather begins having a seizure but it eases, Alynna does a commune spell and research to determine by late evening that a brain tumor is causing the problem, Alynna and Gareth stay in the temple through the night to be close to Heather; 7th: Alynna uses a wish spell to remove the tumor, Heather wakes up but has no memory, Gareth takes Heather home, Heather begins regaining her memories through the day, Jullian suggests to Sue that she might adventure for once since she's no longer blind, Sue declines because Selūne revealed to her she'd be taken as a shard on Shieldmeet, Jullian and Sue discuss the ramifications of that then Jullian takes Sue upstairs for lovemaking then sleep and are late for dinner because of it. |
| 20060312 | 5 Alturiak 1384, mid-afternoon | 6 Alturiak 1384, early afternoon | 5th: Alax's wives keep him in bed for the remainder of the day to rest, Gareth is summonned to the palace by five heavily armed guards, Jewel tells Gareth of the assassins attack on Alax and of the involvement of Westgate, Gareth promises to investigate in Westgate, Gareth goes to Westgate to ask Markus about the matter, Markus knew nothing of it and agrees to help, Gareth recommends surveillance on the suspects first to gain information, Thistle reveals she's pregnant again as of a month ago, Gareth makes his own espionage arrangements as well before returning home; 6th: Alax does a bit of weapon practice and teaches William a bit about swords, Gareth is told that Markus has the Westhavian captain suspect in custody and is interrogating him and that the captain was rescued from Cormyrean rogues trying to kill him, the captain is delivered to Gareth just before lunch, Gareth heals the captain of his torture wounds and questions him to learn that Lord Cormaeril paid the captain to have the letter to Alax delivered, Gareth takes the captain to the palace to tell Jewel what he found and devises a plan to get Cormaeril to give away his guilt, Cormaeril is summonned and does reveal himself to be guilty, Jewel orders Cormaeril to be drawn and quartered. |
| 20060311 | 5 Alturiak 1384, morning | 5 Alturiak 1384, mid-afternoon | 5th: Alynna and Heather meet for lunch and it goes well, a messenger from Westgate delivers Alax a message that says "nothing personal" immediately before two assassins turn visible and attack Alax, Alax is seriously wounded before guards force the two assassins to teleport away wounded, Sue and Jullian save Alax, Jullian questions the messenger (who was taken prisoner) then takes him to Suzail, Jullian and Jewel talk, Jewel states that she was warned the attack would happen as part of a demand to free Jerrid Dauntinghorn, Jullian questions how much of Westgate is involved with the pirates and whether Gareth is involved but Jewel insists Gareth is loyal, the messenger is taken for interrogation while Jewel goes to Alax's bedside, Jullian sends for Morgan as well, Morgan suspects Gareth as well, Alax wakes up at mid-afternoon, Jewel says for now she needs to gather information on the attack before acting, Alax expresses a lack of confidence in Cormyr's spies. |
| 20060305 | 4 Alturiak 1384, start of day | 5 Alturiak 1384, morning | 4th: Jewel summons Gareth to the palace because she finds out about the deal Jerrid made with the pirates, Gareth assures Jewel that the deal was ended, Jewel demands to see Gareth, Gareth fetches Jerrid and brings him to the palace, Jewel sentences him to hanging but thanks to Gareth's pleading reduces it to seven years of imprisonment, Jewel orders Hector home after Gareth voices concerns about the inheritance of his title, a war wizard arrives on Hector's ship while he's out on patrol and relays the order to return, Hector gives the order to set sail for the colony at first light, Alax sends a message to the group to be prepared to depart for the colony on the 11th to go adventuring, once Raymond gets the message he takes Astra to bed for the day, Willis discusses the plans for the trip with Alax, Alynna hosts a birthday party for Ūmaryl, Gareth tells Heather about Jerrid; 5th: Heather comes to Hullack to see Alynna and beg for her help to get Jerrid freed, Alynna refuses to ask for Jerrid to be let off the hook but suggests that in return for freeing him House Dauntinghorn as a whole might shoulder the punishment, Heather declines to accept this help but still wants to renew a friendship with Alynna, Alynna agrees to have lunch with her later that day. |
| 20060226 | 3 Alturiak 1384 | 3 Alturiak 1384, end of day | 3rd: Alynna and Elron try teleporting to Halaster but the teleport gets redirected to a trap, Alynna and Elron survive the trap and work their way into Undermountain through an ogre's garderobe, Alynna and Elron find Halaster and manage to talk him into returning Morgan's heart, Alynna tries to dispel the translocational magic and it appears to fail and cause Morgan's death, Alynna is distraught and Elron returns them home, Elron tells Alax that Morgan is dead, then returns home to find that Morgan is actually alive and Alynna's dispel was successful, Morgan then visits Alynna before returning to Alax, Morgan then visits Astra, during the evening a dinner and party is held for Dalia Hornshield's 20th birthday in Alax's home in the keep, the evening goes very well although Morgan wears a very revealing dress that embarasses Astra, Alax talks to Morgan after the party to express his disapproval as well, Morgan agrees to wear no more such dresses. |
| 20060224 | 2 Alturiak 1384 | 3 Alturiak 1384 | 2nd: Storm has a party for Darvan's 5th birthday, Jullian and Astra plan for Dalia Hornshield's 20th birthday in two days; 3rd: Morgan rises early feeling fully recovered and writres in her diary before waking Jullian, Jullian examines Morgan and finds she has no heartbeat, Morgan goes to ask Mystra and returns saying that her heart has been magically stolen and that Alynna should scry for it, Jullian and Morgan go immediately to consult with Alynna, Alynna finds that Halaster Blackcloak took the heart, Alynna and Elron decide to go talk to him to try to get the heart back. |
| 20060219 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | 2 Alturiak 1384 | 1st: Alynna Storm and Elron wait for the black knight to attack, a terrible winter storm blows in with lightning, the Mystran temple is mildly damaged by lightning, Alynna discovers through a scry that the black knight has attacked the temple to Helm and that High Watcher Horthon Scheel isn't doing well, Alynna gets Flonna's permission to go help, Alynna discovers that the black knight is powerful and calls Alax for help before entering melee herself, the black knight stops the battle (by trapping everyone else but Alynna) and asks Alynna who she is, the knight reveals himself to be Quirm Zanthal a special servant of Talos, Quirm was testing the town and is satisfied atht he strength of the defense so he deems the town worthy to live, Quirm ceases the attack and returns ot the inn, Alynna returns home; 2nd: Jullian restores a bit more of Morgan's life force, Astra enjoys the day with his children, Raymond wants to face the blackguard Quirm but Astra asks him to discuss it with Alyna first, Alynna tels Raymond to not face Quirm, Raymond returns home, Astra is pleased, Quirm leaves town after lunch. |
| 20060217 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | 1st: Astra stays with Mystra until she awakens then they talk for a bit, Mystra brings Astra back to Hullack to see Alynna and gives Alynna back her silver fire, Alynna apologizes if she had anything to do with what befell Mystra, Mystra gives her a trivial penance, Alax gets a poorly written report from a new lionar in the colony (Tabitha Jekrek) about the discovery of a diamond mine that most likely the elves and dwarves already knew of, Sue gets a love letter from Lord Cormaeril, Alax spends time with Morgan while she's feeling weak, a black knight comes to dinner at Henric's inn asking about temples in town, the knight says he intends to purify them, as soon as the knight leaves the inn Henric warns Alynna, who then spreads word of the black knight, the black knight does not attack anyone right away. |
| 20060212 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | 1st: Alynna and Daressa discuss magic and mages, Jullian uses restoration spells to heal Morgan only a little, Flonna feels something is wrong with Mystra, Alynna asks Storm about it then asks Astra to go to Dweomerheart, Astra goes only to find Mystra has collapsed and is unconscious, Alynna theorizes that her sacrificiing her silver fire to save Morgan may have had something to do with it but expects that it's just a temporary thing, Morgan awakes but is still weak. |
| 20060210 | Midwinter 1384 | 1 Alturiak 1384 | Midwinter: Alax and wives enjoy themselves after returning home; Some time prior: Gareth talks to Jerrid and finds out that Jerrid has made a deal with pirates, Gareth is angry and upset and gets Jerrid to end the deal; 1st Alturiak: Alynna and Alax and group return to Daressa's castle to keep the undead off her while she fixes the mythal, the essense of the old malformed mythal begins feeding off of Morgan's lifeforce, Alynna intervense before it drains Morgan by offering her Silver Fire as a more appetizing form of energy, Alynna's silver fire is drained from her, Morgan is still alive but not by much, Daressa teleports them all back to Hullack. |
| 20060205 | 25 Hammer 1384, start of day | Midwinter 1384 | 25th: Edmund wakes up to find a snow leopard sleeping next to him, the group has breakfast then sets out, the snow leopard follows with Edmund, close to the end of the day the group finds several stone lotus plants growing in the snow, Jullian and Morgan transplant them live into containers, Edmund speaks to the snow leopard and learns that it was sent by a mistress to watch over him, the group returns home to Hullack, Jullian and Morgan take a couple of lotus plants to Alynna, then Alynna takes the remaining lotus plants to Daressa, the group relaxes for the evening; 26th: Alax and group goes to Saerloon via portal and charters a ship to go to Hawk's Isle, the ship sails right away; 28th: Willis reveals that he's been suffering from back pain after receiving some broken ribs at a fight in Walth's place, Jullian finds that the ribs knitted incorrectly but she can do nothing until after they're back home; 29th: After an uneventful trip Alax and group arrive at Hawk's Isle during the morning and disembark, they search the island and find a cave, they search the cave, Astra and Morgan find a suitable crystal, Raymond gets killed and digested by some sort of cave creature, once the crystal is retrieved and Raymond's body recovered they return to Hullack, Jullian uses the Staff of Life to resurrect Raymond, Jullian takes Willis home to fix his ribs while the rest of the group takes the perfect crystal to Daressa, Daressa is pleased with their work, Alax invites Daressa to the High Festival of Winter; 30th: It's generally a peaceful day as the noble-blooded get ready for the festival; Midwinter: All the nobles and royals attend the High Festival of Winter at the palace in Suzail, a generally good time is had by all, Daressa meets many of the nobles, Morgan wears a far-too-revealing dress for Astra's taste and Laspeera thinks it looks like the robes of a Sharran high priestess, Morgan leaves the party a bit early and Alax Jullian and Sue follow her home. [Alax and group get 1,500XP each for the adventure to the castle, the search within, and the trips to the Storm Horns and Hawk's Isle.] |
| 20060203 | 24 Hammer 1384 | 24 Hammer 1384, end of day | 24th: Alax and group goes to search the castle for the notes Daressa wants while Alynna remains and talk to Daressa, Daressa is a bit dismayed with the quick history refresher Alynna gives her in which humans now rule the area, Alax and group finds the book of notes Daressa wanted, Daressa asks the group to find some additional things she needs to repair her mythal (stone lotus from the Storm Horns and a perfect crystal from the Isle of Goth (now called Hawk's Isle in the Pirate isles), and three blood of innocents (garnet gems)), Alynna and Alax and group returns home, Alax and group re-equip then to go High Horn via portal then set out into the Storm Horns, Alynna takes some garnets from her personal collection and takes them back to Daressa, Alax and group camp at the end of the day, Alynna tells her spouses all about Daressa before bedtime. |
| 20060129 | 22 Hammer 1384, start of day | 24 Hammer 1384 | 22nd: Alax sleeps late, Edmund and Sue return to hunting, Sue is heard to scream from the fog, Edmund tracks her and found her abducted, Edmund follows the tracks in time to see a flesh golem carry Sue into a castle in the middle of the Wailing Fog, Edmund runs back to find his rangers, the rangers return to camp, Edmund calls for Alynna, Alynna brings the adventuring group to the camp, Edmund leads Alax and group to the castle, Alax and group defeat many skeletons, four wraiths and two helmed horrors before finding and rescuing Sue, Alax and group cannot teleport out so they take Sue back to the rangers camp beore teleporting back home well after midnight, Alynna heals Sue; 23rd: Alax and Sue sleep in, Astra and Morgan read the books they took from the castle, Morgan arranges for the group to have dinner together at the inn, at dinner Morgan tells them the contents of the diary of the elven high mage she read (the elven high mage is an insane female who is trapped by the malformed mythal around the castle) and Astra tells of the book about elven mythals, they agree that Alynna will have to handle the high mage, Astra and Morgan visit Alynna and tell her of what they found before returning home, Alynna agrees to go with the group, Jullian helps the rangers deal with undead through the day, in the evening Damin fights a pair of Purple Dragons that called Jullian and Morgan 'incestuous whores' and beats them; 24th: Alynna and Alax and his group return to the ranger camp and proceed again to the castle in the middle of the Wailing Fog, they defeat many skeletons and zombies then enter the castle to find Daressa Singing-Arrow (high mage of the Elven Court), Alynna cures her of the insanity and they introduce themselves. |
| 20060127 | 21 Hammer 1384, morning | 21 Hammer 1384, end of day | 21st: Jullian and Morgan talk after returning from the hunting camp, Alax does paperwork while Malcom visits the battlefront in the North, Malcom reports that things are going very well in the North, Morgan admits to Astra that she and Jullian have become intimate, Morgan goes to tell Alynna this and ask Alynna to marry her to Jullian, Alynna is disapproving and refuses to marry them, Morgan returns home to tell Jullian, Jullian says that things still don't have to change between them, Alynna discusses the situation with her spouses and Storm is accepting of it, the remainder of the evening goes peacefully for all. |
| 20060120 | 20 Hammer 1384, morning | 21 Hammer 1384, morning | 20th: Edmund and Sue discuss their feelings of being watched from within the fog, at the end of the day Alynna teleports to camp in the evening to tell Edmund and Sue what she learned of the area's military history, Alax Morgan and Jullian talk over dinner; 21st: Jullian and Sue teleport to Edmund and Sue's camp to bring supplies and talk with Sue then return home. |
| 20060114 | 18 Hammer 1384 | 20 Hammer 1384, morning | 18th: Alax wakes up alone and is disgruntled, Sue is happy to be useful with Edmund's hunting expedition, Morgan reveals she wants to be intimate with Jullian and tries to seduce her but Jullian resists, Morgan visits Mystra and gets her to accept intimacy between her and Jullian, Morgan spends remainder of day with Astra, Alax talks with Malcom about no more golems appearing, Malcom tells Alax to give Adeara an award for valor and Alax decides to have a general award ceremony to boost morale, after dinner Jullian and Morgan go at Alax and each other, Astra gets more practice at not switching with Morgan then goes at it with Raymond after Morgan is asleep, Sue and Edmund and hunters arrive at edge of Wailing Fog and set up camp outside the fog; 19th: Edmund and Sue take some rangers into the fog to hunt while other secure the camp and hunting is good, Sue deals with some undead, Sue asks Alynna for lore about battles in the area, Alynna discusses the military history of the Wailing Fog area with Alax, after dinner Alax Morgan and Jullian have another night of fun, Astra again has her fun after Morgan is asleep; 20th: Jullian and Morgan have fun in the morning, a stripper comes to entertain Alax in his office in Royal Cour and claims that Alax's brother sent her but Alax sends her away, Morgan joins Astra for some scroll work. |
| 20060113 | 17 Hammer 1384 | 17 Hammer 1384 | 17th: Upon interrogation the assassin reveals he is working for a man who claims to be the rightful king (a son of Azoun) and that the claimant is a house guest of the Cormaerils, Alax talks with Jewel for a while then stands guard over her for the rest of the day, the usurper is arrested and imprisoned, Mystra takes Astra and Morgan to help her recover a spellbook stolen from Dweomerheart, the thief was a solar turned by Graz'zt, in the process of recovering the book the manufactory that made the golems assaulting the North was destroyed, after the recovery Mystra takes the twins to Waterdeep to spend time with them, after returning to Hullack Astra and Morgan tell Alynna about the event, Jullian goes to her temple after dinner while Alax and Morgan spend time together, Astra keeps herself from switching with Morgan, after done Morgan goes to sleep next to Jullian in the second bedroom; [Astra and Morgan get 1000XP each for the recovery of the spellbook.] |
| 20060102 | 16 Hammer 1384 | 17 Hammer 1384 | 16th: Alax tries the three brothers, the three brothers admit their deeds and provide a pathetic justification, Alax finds them guilty and orders them hanged at sunset, the execution is carried out, Adeara gets her mechanical hand and Edmund escorts her home, Axil tells Alax of the rangers' hunting trip and recommends an expedition to clear the Wailing Fog, Alax promises he'll get to it as soon as weather and duty permit; 17th: Morgan had a fitful sleep due to nightmares, at Axil's request Sue heads out with Edmund and the other rangers on their way back to the Wailing Fog, at the end of the day Jewel is shot during a dedication in the temple district but lives, Alax stays with Jewel once she's brought back to the palace, the assassin is caught only 20 minutes later. |
| 20051231 | 15 Hammer 1384 | 16 Hammer 1384 | 15th: Alynna tells her family she's going to Thunderstone to investigate Sara's problem, Storm volunteers to go with her and Alynna is happy for the help, Storm and Alynna go there in disguise and take work as serving wenches at the inn the brewery master also owns, Astra and Morgan spend the day together, Alax receives word that Adeara's camp was attacked by golems and she was seriously injured, Edmund feels Adeara getting wounded, in the evening Alax tells Kat that Adeara was hurt then attempts to tell Alynna, Elron takes Jullian and Sue to Silverymoon where they treat Adeara and other soldiers, Adeara is missing her right hand and is getting a magical & mechanical mithral hand crafted by an elven master smith, Jullian disapproves but heals her other wounds, during the evening Alynna finds that the three sons of the brewer are loud rude & crude and attempt to take liberties with Alynna and Storm, Alynna meets the brewer himself later and finds him nice, late at night one son comes into Alynna and Storms room and tries to get in bed with them but Storm throws him out; 16th: Elron rides out to meet Edmund and tell him of Adera's wounding then walks back with the rangers to town, once the elks are turned over Elron takes Edmund to see Adeara, two of the brewers sons try to intimidate Alynna but she remains defiant, Alynna has a private talk with Candra (the blind manager of the inn who is daughter of the brewer and sister to the sons) and learns that her brothers put her eyes out and she thinks her brothers are monsters, a bit later the three brothers attack Storm, Alynna rushes to help and they defeat the brothers after which they decide to turn the brothers over to Alax in Hullack for justice. |
| 20051230 | 13 Hammer 1384 | 15 Hammer 1384 | 13th: Edmund and rangers make it to near the edge of the Wailing Fog by the end of the day and camp there, they find evidence of a too-large herd of elk that is actually damaging to the forest; 14th: One of Edmund's camp guards is missing in the morning and it looks like some form of skeleton took him into the fog, Edmund and rangers track the herd of elk into the Realm of Wailing Fog and camp there, in the evening thugs again accost Sara and try to get her and Gantrin to pay them money; 15th:During the night of 14th/15th zombies attack Edmund's camp but are driven off, during the day Edmund and group takes four large elk then heads towards home, Edmund and group camp outside of the fog at the end of the day, Gantrin delivers a keg of ale to Henric, Alynna discovers that Sara was attacked again and treats her injuries, Gantrin believes the thugs were sent by the brewery master of Thunderstone because Gantrin took his Hullack business, Gantrin plans to go out and kill the thugs and brewery master until Alynna talks him out of it, Alynna treats Sara's injuries then places a contingency and telepathic bond spell on her so Alynna will know next time she is attacked, Alynna decides to deal with the thugs herself and gets Flonna to give her some time off; |